And they say unto her, woman, why weepest thou?
&c.] Signifying, that she had no reason to weep, but to
rejoice and be glad; since, though the body of her Lord was not
there, yet he was risen from the dead, and was alive. This they
said, partly to rebuke her for her grief, and to comfort her
under it: Beza's ancient copy adds here, as in ( John 20:15 ) "whom
seekest thou?" and so does the Ethiopic version: "she saith unto
them"; without any concern of mind about what they were, and as
if they had been of the human kind; for her grief made her
fearless, and she cared not who she opened the case to, so that
she could get any relief, and any tidings of her Lord:
because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where
they have
laid him;
and which she thought was reason sufficient for her weeping;
could she but have known, that if he was taken away, it was by
his friends, and was well used, and she could have had the
opportunity of paying her last respects to him, it would have
been a satisfaction; but nothing short of this could dry up her
tears.