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New Creation St. John 20:1-10 & Colossians 3:1-11 by William Klock “On the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark.” If we’ve been paying attention to John’s Gospel—it helps if we’ve recently been reading it from start to finish, but even if what’s fresh in our minds are these chapters we’ve read as our Gospels these last few days—if we’ve been paying close attention, this bit about it being the first day of the week ought to jump out at us. In our reading on Friday we heard John’s echoes of the old story of creation in our Gospel. When Pilate presented Jesus to the people, robed in purple with his bloody crown of thorns, and declared, “Behold, the man!”; when they took him off to be crucified, John reminds us that it was the sixth day of the week—echoing the sixth day on which the Lord completed his work of creation by calling forth human beings to govern his good creation. John strategically quotes Pilate at that point, as he presents Jesus to the peop
