{"id":10879,"date":"2017-06-08T07:34:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=10879"},"modified":"2017-06-08T07:34:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:34:07","slug":"john-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/08\/john-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"John 20:17, &#8220;Touch me not,&#8221; Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/08\/john-2017\/calf-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10880\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10880\" src=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Red-Heifer-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5760\" height=\"3840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Red-Heifer-3.jpg 5760w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Red-Heifer-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Red-Heifer-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Red-Heifer-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Red-Heifer-3-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5760px) 100vw, 5760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently I received an email from someone asking me to explain John 20:17 where Yeshua had a conversation with Mary Magdalene after his resurrection, but before his ascension to heaven and said the following:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jesus said to her, \u201cDo not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, \u2018I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>John 20:17,<i> Touch me not.<\/i><\/b> <i>Touch<\/i> is the Greek word <i>haptomai <\/i>meaning \u201cto fasten one\u2019s self to, adhere to, cling to,\u201d and can be used to refer to touching in a carnal and passionate way as between a man and a woman. Perhaps Yeshua didn\u2019t want his disciples to cling to him as a wife clings to her husband, since, in a spiritual sense, they (and us) were\/are only betrothed and not yet married to him yet. (The marriage of the saints to Yeshua will occur at his second coming.)<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Yeshua had not yet ascended to heaven where he would be accepted by his Father as the perfect, unspotted, undefiled and sinless sacrificial Lamb of Elohim. If a sinful human had touched him, this may have ceremonially defiled his state of perfect cleanliness.<\/p>\n<p>In the Torah, for example, if a man touched a dead human carcass, he would become ceremonially unclean and need cleansing (Num 19:11\u201313). This was the law of the red heifer, which was a prophetic picture of Yeshua dying on the cross for our sins, which had to be perfect and blemish free (Num 19:1\u201310; Heb 13:10\u201312).<\/p>\n<p>The lesson here is that all men are dead in their sins until they come into contact with Yeshua the Messiah, which is the lesson of the red heifer.<\/p>\n<div>For additional information on the red heifer, here is a link to an article I have written on the subject:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoshanarabbah.org\/pdfs\/redheifer.pdf\">https:\/\/www.hoshanarabbah.org\/pdfs\/redheifer.pdf<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'John 20:17, \\&quot;Touch me not,\\&quot; Explained',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/08\/john-2017\/',contentID: 'post-10879',suggestTags: 'John 20:17,Red Heifer,Yeshua',providerName: 'Hoshana Rabbah Blog',styling: 'text' });return false\" class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryLink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.evernote.com\/article-clipper.png\" \nclass=\"evernoteSiteMemoryButton\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryClear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I received an email from someone asking me to explain John 20:17 where Yeshua had a conversation with Mary Magdalene after his resurrection, but before his ascension to heaven and said the following: &nbsp; 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