TOUCHING JESUS
What Jesus probably means [by “Do not keep clinging to me.”] is “Do not think, Mary that by grasping hold of me so firmly . . . you can keep me always with you. That uninterruptible fellowship for which you yearn must wait until I have ascended to be forever with the Father.” . . . What he condemned was Mary’s mistaken notion that the former mode of fellowship was going to be resumed, in other words, that Jesus would once again live in daily visible association with his disciples, both men and women. The fellowship, to be sure, would be resumed; but it would be far richer and more blessed. It would be the communion of the ascended Lord in the Spirit with his Church. From John, by William Hendriksen
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