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Joh 20:1-29 Chiastic Structure:
What an unusual central axis, that Mary did not know she was speaking to Jesus, until He revealed Himself to her. This has happened previously in Scripture. In Gen 46, Joseph, who acts as a Prophetic Type of Messiah, receives his brothers when they come to buy food, but they do not recognize him until he makes himself known to them.
But this is what Jesus has been doing for the past 2000 years: revealing Himself to all who would come to Him. We do not find Him, but He finds us and makes Himself known to us.
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