UYohane 20:14

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

14 Akutsho wajika, wambona uYesu emi; wayengazi ke ukuba nguYesu.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and saw: Song of Solomon 3:3, Song of Solomon 3:4, Matthew 28:9, Mark 16:9

and knew: John 8:59, John 21:4, Mark 16:12, Luke 4:30, Luke 24:16, Luke 24:31

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:8 - but they knew John 20:25 - We

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when she had thus said,.... As soon as the words were out of her mouth, before she could have an answer from the angels:

she turned herself back; perceiving, either by the looks and gesture of one of the angels, or by hearing a noise, that somebody was behind her:

and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus; she saw a person, but did not know who he was, by reason of the form of his appearance, the difference of his clothes, and not expecting to see him alive; or through modesty, she might not look wistfully at him; and besides, her eyes were filled with tears, and swollen with weeping; so that she could not see clearly; and her eyes might be holden also, as the disciples were, that as yet she might not know him: so sometimes, in a spiritual sense, Christ is with, and near his people, and they know it not: Christ, as God, is omnipresent; he is every where, and in all places; the spiritual presence of Christ, is more or less, in some way or another, always in all his churches, and among his dear people; but the sight of him is not always alike to them, nor does he appear to them always in the same form; sometimes against them, at least in their apprehensions, nor always in a manner agreeably to their expectations; nor is his grace always discovered in the same way, nor has it the same effect.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Knew not that it was Jesus - She was not expecting to see him. It was yet also twilight, and she could not see distinctly.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 20:14. She turned herself back — Or, εστραφη εις τα οπισω, she was turned back, i.e. to go again with the other women to Jerusalem, who had already departed; but she had not as yet gone so far as to be out of the garden.

Knew not that it was Jesus — John has here omitted what the angels said to the women, about Christ's being risen; probably because it was so particularly related by the other evangelists: Matthew 28:5-7; Mark 16:6-7; Luke 24:5-7. Mary was so absorbed in grief that she paid but little attention to the person of our Lord, and therefore did not at first discern it to be him; nor could she imagine such an appearance possible, as she had no conception of his resurrection from the dead. She was therefore every way unprepared to recognize the person of our Lord.