Yeshua Said, “Don’t Touch Me!”
Rabbi Yehudah ben Shomeyr
But Mary stood without at the
sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the
sepulchre, And seeth two angels in white sitting, the
one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. And
they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they
have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. And
when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and
knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman,
why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener,
saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid
him, and I will take him away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him,
Rabboni; which is to say, Master. Jesus saith unto her,
Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren,
and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and
your God. – John 20:11-17
“Don’t touch
me!” Ever wonder why Yeshua said that to Miriam (Mary), it seems to always
strike Western readers as Yeshua was being snotty or aloof.
For goodness
sake Yeshua, she’s glad You’re alive! You could have at least patted her on the
back and said, “There, there, it’s okay.”
But again,
it is due to Gentile ignorance and bias that we would ever think such. So, ever
wonder the real reason why Yeshua said this to Mary? To find out guess where we
have to go? That’s right, the Torah, the Law.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I
give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf
of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: And
he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the
priest shall wave it. And ye shall offer that day when
ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt
offering unto the Lord. And
the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with
oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of
wine, the fourth part of an hin. And ye shall eat
neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye
have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations in all your dwellings. And
ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye
brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Even
unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye
shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord. – Lev. 23:9-16
The Sunday
after the weekly Sabbath that occurs after Passover begins for Messianic and
Natsari believers the Counting of the Omer and during the Passion week, this
feel on the 17th of Nissan. According to Torah this is when the
First Fruit offering was presented in the Temple. Yeshua, typifying and bringing
full meaning and fulfillment to this Offering, Yeshua was the First Fruits, the
Best, Brightest and Most perfect from all who had been resurrected.
Jesus, when he had cried again
with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold,
the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the
earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves
were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And
came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and
appeared unto many. – Matt. 27:50-53
Yeshua
needed to be on time in heaven to appear in the Heavenly Temple before the Father
as THE First Fruit offering.
But now is Christ
risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept. – I Cor. 15:20
It’s not
that Yeshua didn’t want to be touched, or touched by a woman. It did not render
Him an invalid offering. Notice He did not say, “Great! Just Great! I have been
tainted by human hands, yea, a woman’s hand and cannot present myself as a pure
and unblemished firstfruit offering before my Father! Nice going Mary!” No,
Yeshua did not say that. If you read the passages in the Greek, Hebrew and
Aramaic what Yeshua said doesn’t sound so harsh. We should read it as, “Don’t
cling to me (for I cannot be late).”
HE IS RISEN
HALLELUYAH!!!
