Knew Not Jesus

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 29, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 42.

KNEW NOT JESUS.—When Mary Magdalene went to the tomb where Jesus had been laid, and found it empty, she was greatly troubled. She wept bitterly because she could not find His lifeless body. And when He appeared to her alive, and spoke to her, she "knew not that it was Jesus." How many professed followers of Christ are mourning over their troubles to-day because they do not recognize Jesus! And why do they not know Him?—Because of unbelief of His Word. Had Mary and the other disciples believed His instruction, they would all have been at the tomb earlier that morning, expecting to see Him arise and come forth. Likewise to-day, because people do not have implicit confidence in the Scriptures of truth, they do not fully realize that they have a living Saviour, who is "a very present help in trouble."