John 11:32

When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

From Background Notes [BN] for August 4^th & 5^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Calvin suggests: “Although people used to throw themselves on the ground before kings and leaders, Christ, so far as his human life was concerned, had nothing royal or magnificent about him, and yet Mary fell at his feet for a different reason. She would have not have done so had she not been persuaded that he was the Son of God.”

 

Perhaps this has a measure of truth in it. However, the meaning Mary pours into that phrase will need to grow in the rocky soil of loss and grief. She falls before him, since there is no one else to whom she can go, much as Peter affirmed in 6:68: “You have the words of eternal life.” [BN, 5]

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