John 20:17 (WEB)
Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
Catechism · 5
"Our Father Who Art in Heaven"
“Jn Christ, then, heaven and earth are reconciled, for the Son alone "descended from heaven" and causes us to ascend there with him, by his Cross, Resurrection, and Ascension.” — Catechism footnote: Jn 3:13; 12:32; 14 2-3; 16:28; 20:17; Eph 4:9-10; Heb 1:3; ⇒ 2:13.
"And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"
“He distinguished his sonship from that of his disciples by never saying "our Father", except to command them: "You, then, pray like this: 'Our Father'", and he emphasized this distinction, saying "my Father and your Father".” — Catechism footnote: Mt 5:48; 6:8-9; 7:21; Lk 11:13; Jn 20:17.
On the Third Day He Rose from the Dead
“Thus the women were the first messengers of Christ's Resurrection for the apostles themselves.” — Catechism footnote: Cf Lk 24:9-10; Mt 28:9-10; Jn 20:11-18.
“Yet at the same time this authentic, real body possesses the new properties of a glorious body: not limited by space and time but able to be present how and when he wills; for Christ's humanity can no longer be confined to earth, and belongs henceforth only to the Father's divine realm.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 28:9, 16-17; Lk 24:15, 36; Jn 20:14, 17, 19, 26; 21:4.
"He Ascended into Heaven and is Seated at the Right Hand of the Father"
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“The veiled character of the glory of the Risen One during this time is intimated in his mysterious words to Mary Magdalene: "I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 20:17.
Fathers and councils · 79
Augustine of Hippo
“…Christ is God;” and, “Then shall He Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him;” and, “I go to my Father and your Father, my God and your God,” together with some others of like tenor.” — editor's note: John xx. 17
Read the whole comment“For the Lord on the resurrection saith, “Go and say to My brethren.”” — editor's note: John xx. 17.
Read the whole comment““To the end,” for His own resurrection, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself speaketh.” — editor's note: John xx. 1–17.
Read the whole comment“Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things unto her.”” — editor's note: John xx. 1–18.
Read the whole comment“…withdraws Himself from Mary with some deep mystical intention after His resurrection, and says to her, “Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father.”” — editor's note: John xx. 17.
Read the whole comment“Is not He the same that said to the doubting disciple, “Reach hither thy fingers, and feel the scars”?” — editor's note: John xx. 17, 27.
Read the whole comment“Hence, too, is this: “Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father.”” — editor's note: John xx. 17
Read the whole comment“…belong to the mystery of our own inner resurrection, where, after He had risen, He says to the woman, “Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father;” with which mystery the apostle’s words agree, where he says, “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the…” — editor's note: John xx. 17
Read the whole comment“Whence He saith to the woman who represents the Church, when she fell at His Feet after His Resurrection, “Touch Me not, for I am not yet ascended to the Father.”” — editor's note: John xx. 17.
Read the whole comment“Whence also He said to that woman that wished to throw herself at His feet after His resurrection: “’Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to the Father.”” — editor's note: John xx. 17.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“This first-born, then, hath also brethren, concerning whom He speaks to Mary, saying, “Go and tell My brethren, I go to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.”” — editor's note: Cf. S. John xx. 17: the quotation is not verbal.
Read the whole comment“…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.”” — editor's note: S. John xx. 17
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“…Him, “Touch Me not, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to the disciples, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and unto your Father.”” — editor's note: John xx. 17.
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Tertullian
“…He would have called them His children, (instead of His brethren), “and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.”” — editor's note: John xx. 17.
Read the whole comment“For if Christ is God the Father, when He says, “I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God,” He of course shows plainly enough that there is above Himself another Father and another God.” — editor's note: John xx. 17.
Read the whole comment“With Him they live; with Him they converse; Him they “handle” by day and by night; to the Lord they assign their prayers as dowries; from Him, as oft as they desire it, they receive His approbation as dotal gifts.” — editor's note: 1 John i. 1; Luke xxiv. 39; John xx. 17.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For He speaks thus: “I go to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.”” — editor's note: John xx. 17.
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John Damascene
“Wherefore He said, I ascend unto My Father and your Father.” — editor's note: St. John xx. 17.
Read the whole comment“Others are appropriate to the double nature, as, I ascend unto My Father and your Father, and My God and your God, and The King of Glory shall come in, and He sat down on the right hand of the majesty on High.” — editor's note: St. John xx. 17.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“But lest any one from simplicity or perverse ingenuity should suppose that Christ is but equal in honour to righteous men, from His saying, I ascend to My Father, and your Father, it is well to make this distinction beforehand, that the name of the Father is one, but the power of His operation manifold.” — editor's note: John xx. 17. On this text, quoted again in Cat. xi. 19, see the three Sermons of Bishop Andrewes On the Resurrection.
Read the whole comment“For He is not ashamed to say, I ascend unto My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.” — editor's note: John xx. 17.
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Ambrose of Milan
“The Lord said indeed to Mary Magdalene, “Touch Me not,” but He Who was pure did not say, “because I am pure.”” — editor's note: S. John xx. 17.
Read the whole comment“Moreover, God’s Son discovers the difference between generation and grace when He says: “I go up to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.”” — editor's note: S. John xx. 17. The “grace” of which St. Ambrose speaks is the grace of adoption. Jesus Christ is the Son of God φύσει, we are sons υἱοθεσίᾳ “by adoption.”
Read the whole comment“Mark how He says: “I go up to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.”” — editor's note: S. John xx. 17.
Read the whole comment“But if thou shouldst seek Him amongst earthly beings, even as Mary of Magdala sought Him, take heed lest He say to thee, as unto her: “Touch Me not, for I am not yet ascended unto My Father.”” — editor's note: S. John xx. 17.
Read the whole comment“For Mary worshipped Christ, and therefore is appointed to be the messenger of the Resurrection to the apostles, loosening the hereditary bond, and the huge offence of womankind.” — editor's note: S. John xx. 17, 18.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“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.’” — editor's note: John xx. 17
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John Chrysostom
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Special, as all Christians are called brethren, as the Saviour says, “Go tell my brethren.” [John 20:17] General, inasmuch as all men are born of one father, we are bound together by a tie of consanguinity, as in that, “Say unto them that hate you, Ye are our brethren.” [Isa 66:5]” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“It was because Mary Magdalene had done this that when she recognized the Lord’s voice calling her and fell at His feet, He said to her: “Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father;” that is to say, you are not worthy to touch, as risen, one whom you suppose still in the tomb.” — editor's note: Joh. xx. 17.
Read the whole comment“(4) How is John xx. 17, “touch me not,” to be reconciled with Matt. xxviii. 9, “they came and held him by the feet”?” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“(4) How can Matt. xxviii. 9 (Saturday evening) be reconciled with John xx. 1–18 (Sunday morning)?” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And elsewhere, “Go unto my brethren and say to them.”” — editor's note: S. John xx. 17.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“In the day of Thy Ascension we are lifted up: with the new Bread shall be the memorial thereof.” — editor's note: John xx. 17.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“But we cannot and ought not to say that there are two Gods, for the Lord Himself said, I will go unto My Father and your Father, unto My God and your God.” — editor's note: John xx. 17.
Read the whole comment“From the words, I ascend unto My Father and your Father, to My God and your God, they argue that since that Father is ours as much as His, and that God also ours and His, His own confession that He shares with us in that relation to the…” — editor's note: St. John xx. 17.
Read the whole comment“Among their other sins the heretics often employ as an argument the words of the Lord, I ascend unto My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.” — editor's note: St. John xx. 17.
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John Cassian
“But what is that which He Himself says: “I ascend unto my Father.”” — editor's note: S. John xx. 17.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“But in opposition to all these, do you reckon up for me the expressions which make for your ignorant arrogance, such as “My God and your God,” or greater, or created, or made, or sanctified; Add, if you like, Servant and Obedient and Gave and Learnt, and was commanded, was sent, can do nothing of…” — editor's note: John xx. 17, 28.
Read the whole comment“VII. As your third point you count the Word Greater; and as your fourth, To My God and your God.” — editor's note: Ib. xx. 17.
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Leo the Great
“…His Resurrection, when Mary Magdalene, representing the Church, hastened to approach and touch Him: “Touch Me not, for I have not yet ascended to My Father:” that is, I would not have you come to Me as to a human body, nor yet recognize Me by fleshly perceptions: I put thee off for higher things, I prepare greater…” — editor's note: S. John xx. 17.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on John
Mary Magdalene, who had been the sinner in the city, and who had washed out the spots of her sins by her tears, whose soul burned with love, did not retire from the sepulchre when the others did: Then the disciples…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
i. e. To the place where they were lodging, and from which they had ran to the sepulchre. But though the men returned, the stronger love of the woman fixed her to the spot. But Mary stood without at the sepulchre…
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i. e. Outside of the place where the stone sepulchre was, but yet within the garden.
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Be not astonished that Mary wept for love at the sepulchre, and Peter did not; for the female sex is naturally tender, and inclined to weep.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The eyes then which had sought our Lord, and found Him not, now wept without interruption; more for grief that our Lord had been removed, than for His death upon the cross. For now even all memorial of Him was taken…
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She then saw, with the other women, the Angel sitting on the right, on the stone which had been rolled away from the sepulchre, at whose words it was that she looked into the sepulchre. (Mat. 28:5.)
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The sight of the sepulchre itself was some consolation. Nay, behold her, to console herself still more, stooping down, to see the very place where the body lay: And as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the…
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For to have looked once is not enough for love. Love makes one desire to look over and over again.
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In her too great grief she could believe neither her own eyes, nor the disciples’. Or was it a divine impulse which caused her to look in?
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She sought the body, and found it not; she persevered in seeking; and so it came to pass that she found. Her longings, growing the stronger, the more they were disappointed, at last found and laid hold on their…
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As her understanding was not so raised as to be able to gather from the napkins the fact of the resurrection, she is given the sight of Angels in bright apparel, who sooth her sorrow.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
But why did one sit at the head, the other at the feet? To signify that the glad tidings of Christ’s Gospel was to be delivered from the head to the feet, from the beginning to the end. The Greek word Angel means one…
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The Angel sits at the head when the Apostles preach that in the beginning was the Word: he sits, as it were, at the feet, when it is said, The Word was made flesh. By the two Angels too we may understand the two…
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The Angels who appear say nothing about the resurrection; but by degrees the subject is entered on. First of all they address her compassionately, to prevent her from being overpowered by a spectacle of such…
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The very declarations of Scripture which excite our tears of love, wipe away those very tears, by promising us the sight of our Redeemer again.
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But she, thinking that they wanted to know why she wept, tells them the reason: She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord. The lifeless body of her Lord, she calls her Lord, putting the part for the…
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As yet she knew nothing of the resurrection, but thought the body had been taken away.
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Here the Angels must be understood to rise up, for Luke describes them as seen standing.
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The hour was now come, which the Angels announced, when sorrow should be succeeded by joy: And when she had thus said, she turned herself back.
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But why, when she is talking to the Angels, and before she has heard any thing from them, does she turn back? It seems to me that while she was speaking, Christ appeared behind her, and that the Angels by their…
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We must observe that Mary, who as yet doubted our Lord’s resurrection, turned back to see Jesus. By her doubting she turned her back, as it were, upon our Lord. Yet inasmuch as she loved, she saw Him. She loved and…
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To the Angels He appeared as their Lord, but not so to the woman, for the sight coming upon her all at once, would have stupified her. She was not to be lifted suddenly, but gradually to high things.
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Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? He asks the cause of her grief, to set her longing still more. For the mere mentioning His name whom she sought would inflame her love for Him.
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Because He appeared as a common person, she thought Him the gardener: 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…
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She was afraid that the Jews might vent their rage even on the lifeless body, and therefore wished to remove it to some secret place.
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Perhaps, however, the woman was right in believing Jesus to be the gardener. Was not He the spiritual Gardener, who by the power of His love had sown strong seeds of virtue in her breast? But how is it that, as soon…
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Just as He was sometimes in the midst of the Jews, and they did not know Him till He pleased to make Himself known. But why does she turn herself, when she had turned herself before? It seems to me that when she…
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Or she first turned her body, but thought Him what He was not; now she was turned in heart, and knew who He was. Let no one however blame her, because she called the gardener, Lord, and Jesus, Master. The one was a…
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The Evangelist does not add what she did upon recognising Him, but we know from what our Lord said to her: Jesus saith unto her, Touch Me not. Mary then had tried to embrace His feet, but was not allowed. Why not?…
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But if standing upon the earth, He is not touched, how shall He be touched sitting in heaven? And did He not before His ascension offer Himself to the touch of the disciples: Handle Me and see, for a spirit hath not…
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Touch is as it were the end of knowledge1; and He was unwilling that a soul intent upon Him should have its end, in thinking Him only what He seemed to be.
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Mary wished to be as familiar with Christ now, as she was before His Passion; forgetting, in her joy, that His body was made much more holy by its resurrection. So, Touch Me not, He says, to remind her of this, and…
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Heretics, among their other impieties, misinterpret these words of our Lord’s, and say, that if His Father is their Father, His God their God, He cannot be God Himself. But though He remained in the form of God, He…
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He does not say, Our Father, but, My Father and your Father: Mine therefore and yours in a different sense; Mine by nature, yours by grace. Nor does He say, Our God, but, My God—under Him I am man—and your God;…
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She then went away from the sepulchre, i. e. from that part of the garden before the rock which had been hollowed out, and with her the other women. But these, according to Mark, were seized with trembling and…
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So the sin of mankind is buried in the very place whence it came forth. For whereas in Paradise the woman gave the man the deadly fruit, a woman from the sepulchre announced life to men; a woman delivers the message…
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While she was going with the other women, according to Matthew, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. (Matt 28:9) So we gather that there were two visions of Angels; and that our Lord too was seen twice, once when Mary…
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Mystically, Mary, which name signifies, mistress, enlightened, enlightener, star of the sea, stands for the Church, which is also Magdalen, i. e. towered, (Magdalen being Greek for tower,) as we read in the Psalms,…
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Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.22.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 74.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.8.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 74.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.31.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 59.
Cited together in Letters Letter 59.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 12:46–50 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 12:46–50 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.31.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.22.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 12:46–50 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 12:46–50 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 12:46–50 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.8.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 20:10–18 (15) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.31.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.