“Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her. John 20.11-18 (KJV)
Many years ago my family and I toured Glamis Castle located very beautifully and impressively in the rural Scottish county of Angus.
Glamis is the ancestral home of The Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorn. It is famously linked to Shakespeare’s Macbeth and was the home of King Charles’ Grandmother.
If you tour the impressive castle you will come to a chapel. As an Oklahoma country boy I was impressed the family actually had their own “Church” within their “home.”
This small chapel is decorated in what might be considered a medieval style.
A Dutch artist Jacob De Wet was commissioned in 1688 to provide the chapel with over 100 paintings based on Bible passages.
Among the paintings is one described as the only painting of Jesus wearing a hat. It is based on the story in John 20 (see above) of Mary not having found Jesus’ body at the tomb and sadly leaving.
Nearby Mary saw a person she thought to be the gardener and asked if he knew where Jesus’ body had been taken. But He calls her by name and she realizes the one she assumed was the gardener is actually the resurrected Jesus.
De Wet painted Jesus with a hat as in those days that was the customary attire for a gardener.
Jesus tells her to go tell “my brethren” that she had seen Him.
Mary did as directed, telling the mourning Disciples, “I have seen the Lord.”
He is in fact RISEN.
Your task is just like Jesus told Mary. Go to tell the others, “I have met the Lord.”
Beautiful!
Love this!♥️