Trevor Jamison asks why Mary Magdalene did not – and then did – recognise the risen Jesus

What prevented Mary Magdalene from recognising Jesus on the first Easter morning, when, the Gospel of John tells us, she took him for the gardener?…

Trevor Jamison is Minister of Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, and Northern Synod Clerk. This article is edited from a sermon preached in North Shields at Easter 2023

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This is an extract from an article published in the April 2024 edition of Reform

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