As the Magdalene herself is our special subject, we propose now to consider the events described in John’s beautiful narrative; for Mary is there the object before the mind of the Spirit, together with the teaching which flows from her experiences on this eventful day. The first thing to which our attention is called is, that when Mary saw that the stone was taken away from the sepulcher, she ran, and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said unto them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher, and we know not where they have laid Him.” She was still without light, but her heart had only one object, and having for the moment lost that, she was filled with inexpressible grief, or rather, she poured out her grief in the touching accents which revealed her perfect desolation—they had taken away the Lord, and we “know not where they have laid Him.” Peter and that other disciple ran with all haste to the sepulcher to verify for themselves the intelligence they had received. The former, with his characteristic eager spirit, the last to reach the place, for the other disciple outran Peter, went at once into the sepulcher, and saw “the linen clothes lie, and the napkin, that was about His head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.” All was in order and peaceful, but what Peter’s thoughts were is not revealed, though, from the contrast which is marked with his companion, it is evident that he was still in unbelief. But that other disciple, who had come first to the sepulcher, then went in, “and he saw and believed. For as yet they knew not the scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.” That is, “that other disciple” believed from what he saw, from the testimony to his eyesight, that the sepulcher was empty. This faith was entirely inoperative, for having learned that the tomb was empty, and one of the two accepting the evidence thus afforded, they yet went away again unto their own home. These also loved the Lord, but their home attracted them, or was their refuge, in this supreme moment in the history of redemption. Sight, speaking now of “that other, disciple,” or intellectual conviction, is always powerless; it occupies itself with truth, and never leads to Christ Himself.