spring.

a time of resurrection.

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Mary was standing outside the tomb crying, and as she wept, she stood and looked in. 

She saw two white-robed angels, one sitting at the head and the other at the foot of the place where the body of Jesus had been lying. 

"Dear woman, why are you crying?" the angels asked her.

"Because they have taken away my Lord," she replied, "and I don't know where they have taken him."

She turned to leave and saw someone standing there. It was Jesus, but she didn't recognize him. 

"Dear woman, why are you crying?" Jesus asked her. "Who are you looking for?"

She thought he was the gardener. 

"Sir," she said, "if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him."

"Mary!" Jesus said.

She turned to him and cried out, "Rabboni!"