Verse 9. For it is not in the knowledge of the Scriptures, for it behooves Him to rise from the dead.9 [The Evangelist indicates the reason why the disciples did not believe not only the women who announced the Resurrection to them, considering it to be a dream (Luke 24:11), but also the two disciples who were going to Emmaus (Luke 24:13 ff.)]. He says that the disciples did not understand the Scriptures that taught about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ; and these Scriptures are scattered in various places in the Psalms of David and the prophetic books.

Verse 10. And when the disciple came to him...,1 i.e. to his abode.

Verse 11... And Mary stood at the tomb outside weeping... 2 She came to the tomb later than Peter and John, because she could not run with them; nor did she meet them when they were on their way back, so that she could not learn anything more certain from them.

Verses 11-12... As he wept, he came to the grave and saw two angels in white (vestments)... 3 These were the same angels who had appeared to her before, and to the women who were with her. But why did they not appear to Peter and John? For them, as they were more intelligent, what they saw was enough to believe.

Verse 12... Sitting, one at the head and one at the foot, where lay the body of Jesus.4 The angels sat there for Mary's sake; they shone with joy (At the tomb of Jesus Christ there were still angels to announce and assure that the Lord had risen, and had not been stolen).

Verse 13. And she said to her, "Woman, why do you weep... 5 Since Mary did not dare to ask the angels, they themselves spoke to her.

Verse 13... She said, "For I have taken my Lord, and I do not know where I have laid Him."6 She assumed that the body of Jesus Christ had been carried to another place by those who had buried Him.

Verse 14. And when he saw Jesus standing... 7 But why did Mary, having not yet learned anything from the angels who were asking her, immediately turn back? For as soon as Jesus Christ suddenly appeared behind her, the angels, seeing their Master, immediately stood up with fear and looked at Him, as befits servants. So Maria turned to see who had come to them.

Verse 14... And she did not know that Jesus was...,8 because He appeared in a different form, though humble and ordinary, so as not to strike her.

Verse 15. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why do you weep; whom you seek; She said to Him, "Lord, if Thou hast taken Him, tell me where Thou hast laid Him, and I will take Him."9 Since Jesus Christ appeared in a humble and ordinary form, and moreover in a garden, Mary thought that it was a gardener. Nor did she recognize the voice of Jesus Christ, because he was not the same as ever. She assumed, as stated above, that the body of Jesus Christ was transferred to another, safer place, and carried out by the gardener (Tell me, she says, where thou hast laid Him: and I will take Him, and I will lay Him in another place, safe from all evil intentions). (Whoever considers the Lord to be the Creator and Provider only of those who are to be born and die, takes Him for a gardener. That is why the Lord avoids the touch of such a person, since, in the opinion of such a person, He has not yet entered into His former dignity and equality with the Father.

Verse 16. Jesus said to her, "Mary." And she said to him, "Rabbi, this is what is said to the Master."10 Now, changing his voice and appearance to a more familiar one, Jesus Christ was pleased that Mary should recognize him; and immediately recognizing Him, she cried out with great joy: "Teacher! (But how could Mary turn away and speak directly to the Lord? Having said what she had said before, Mary turned to the angels to see if there were any more, or to ask who it was that had so frightened them; and then, when Jesus Christ called her, she immediately turned to Him.)

Verse 17. Jesus said to her, "Do not touch me,"1 Mary threw herself to embrace the feet of Jesus Christ, as she had done before, and Jesus Christ restrained her from treating Him as before, because His body had already become divine.

Verse 17... For I did not sigh unto My Father... 2 Jesus Christ said this to Mary not for anything else, says Chrysostom, but only so that she would know that He was now higher and more revered. Whoever wants to ascend to God the Father together with the body has obviously already rejected the corruption of the body. But a little before she and the other Mary took hold of the feet of Jesus Christ, as the Evangelist Matthew says (8:9), and He did not restrain them from doing so, giving them the opportunity to convince themselves by touch that He was not a ghost; but now he does not allow it, because Mary has already forgotten about that vision and touch and did not believe.

Verse 17... Go therefore unto my brethren, and speak unto them: I will ascend unto my Father and your Father, and unto my God and to your God.3 But Jesus Christ was not to ascend immediately, but forty days later; Why then does He say, "I ascend?" Of course, in order to elevate Mary's thoughts even more, to confirm that He is now higher and more Divine, to convince that now we need to look at Him with greater reverence. In addition, the word ascend here means – I desire to ascend, and therefore this action can also refer to further time. Jesus Christ reminds the disciples of what He often told them before He was put to death. He called His disciples brothers, because He Himself was a Man and was related to them in humanity. In a different sense Jesus Christ called God the Father His Father, and in another sense – the Father of the disciples: His own – by nature, as consubstantial with Him, and the Father of the disciples – according to creation and providence, as His creations and worthy of His providence (He also called Him God His own and the disciples, as people in general. and here He separated Himself? Because, although He was a Man and a brother of the disciples in His human nature, He was far superior to them because of His union with the Divine nature and sinlessness).