On Resurrection Sunday, after Christ had defeated Satan through His atoning death, Jesus appeared first to a woman, one who had previously been in bondage to Satan’s demons. Mary Magdalene is the New Testament counterpart to Eve. Her life reminds us that Jesus offers us total deliverance from the bondage of our past. Jesus of the indwelling Holy Spirit. I am not worthy to gather up the crumbs under Your table, and yet You stooped down to rescue me and adopt me into Your heavenly family. Lord Jesus is the only one who can heal the broken hearted and mend us through every tear and every trial. He cares for you and me. All who believe, we are one in the Holy Spirit, we are one in the Lord.

It reads in John20:10-18: Then the disciples returned to the place where they were staying. But Mary stood outside the hole in the rock. She was crying. While she cried, she bent herself down to look inside the hole. She saw two angels there. They were wearing white clothes. They were sitting where Jesus’ dead body had been. One angel was sitting where Jesus’ head had been. The other angel was sitting where his feet had been. They asked her, ‘Woman, why are you crying?’ She replied, ‘They have taken away my Lord. I do not know where they have put him.’ When she had said this, she turned round. She saw a man who was standing there. It was Jesus, but she did not recognize him. Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?’ Mary thought that he was the gardener. So she said, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away somewhere, please tell me. Tell me where you have put him. Then I will go and I will take him away.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Mary.’ She turned towards him and she said in the Jewish language, ‘Rabboni!’ (This means ‘Teacher’.) Jesus said, ‘Do not hold on to me because I have not gone up to the Father yet. But go to my brothers, the disciples. Tell them, “Now I will go up to my Father. He is also your Father. He is my God, and he is your God.” ’ Mary from Magdala took this message to the disciples. She went to them and she said, ‘I have seen the Lord!’ Then she told them the things that Jesus had said to her.