Giovanni 20:13

13 Ed essi le dissero: Donna, perché piangi? Ella disse loro: Perché han tolto il mio Signore, e non so dove l’abbiano posto.

Giovanni 20:13 Meaning and Commentary

John 20:13

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.

Giovanni 20:13 In-Context

11 Ma Maria se ne stava di fuori presso al sepolcro a piangere. E mentre piangeva, si chinò per guardar dentro al sepolcro,

12 ed ecco, vide due angeli, vestiti di bianco, seduti uno a capo e l’altro ai piedi, là dov’era giaciuto il corpo di Gesù.

13 Ed essi le dissero: Donna, perché piangi? Ella disse loro: Perché han tolto il mio Signore, e non so dove l’abbiano posto.

14 Detto questo, si voltò indietro, e vide Gesù in piedi; ma non sapeva che era Gesù.

15 Gesù le disse: Donna, perché piangi? Chi cerchi? Ella, pensando che fosse l’ortolano, gli disse: Signore, se tu l’hai portato via, dimmi dove l’hai posto, e io lo prenderò.