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40 DAYS – Time with God – Day 23

40 DAYS – Time with God – Day 23

The Gardener

by Pat Baxter

Bible text(s)

John 20

14Then she turned round and saw Jesus standing there; but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15“Woman, why are you crying?” Jesus asked her. “Who is it that you are looking for?”

She thought he was the gardener, so she said to him, “If you took him away, sir, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him.”

John 20:14-15GNBOpen in Bible reader

Jesus appears as a gardener, one of the people, low in status. He could have appeared as a president of a country to show the people how to run their lives, but no Jesus appears as a gardener. Why? Is it because people today only listen to the powerful and think those who have little have nothing to say? Will we recognize Jesus if he returns as a gardener?

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