Some moments change your life.

Some moments change your story.

But John 20 is the moment that changes the world.

This chapter is not just a record of resurrection.

It is the moment when God steps back into human experience in a way that breaks open grief, lifts the face of the brokenhearted, and speaks hope into the darkness with a single word.

John 19 leaves us standing beside a sealed tomb.

John 20 invites us into the morning that transforms everything.

This is resurrection — not as an idea, but as an encounter.

Not as doctrine, but as an experience.

Not as history, but as the moment Jesus steps into someone’s tears and calls them by name.

And that person is Mary Magdalene.

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She walks toward the tomb long before sunrise.

The world is dim and gray, but her heart feels darker still.

She is not walking toward hope.

She is walking toward closure — the painful, aching, unbearable kind.

She expects the stone.

She expects the silence.

She expects the stillness of a body she loved deeply and lost violently.

But when she reaches the tomb, she sees what no one saw coming.