Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

2. Her speech upon her mistake; If thou hast born him hence, &c. we may observe,—

1. That her words to Christ are not much unlike the answer she gave the Angels; only she seems to speak more harsh to Christ, than she did to the Angels; to them she complains of others; They have taken away my Lord; but to Christ she speaks as if she would charge him with the fact, as if he looked like one that had been a breaker up of graves, a carrier away of Corpses out of their place of rest; Sir, if thou hast born him hence. But pardon love, as it fears where it needs not, so it suspects very often where it hath no cause; When love is at a loss; he, or any that comes but in our way, hath done it, hath taken him away.

2. That something she spoke now to Christ which she had not mentioned to the Angels. She said not unto them, tell me where he is, but reserved that question for himself to answer, Come, tell me where thou hast laid him, q. d. thou art privy to the place, and with the action of removing Christ my Lord; Oh how she errs, and yet how she hits the truth! Jesus must tell her what he had done with himself, sure it was fittest for his own speech to utter, what was only possible for his own power to do.