John 20:13

The angels ask her, Woman, why weepest thou? It is a tender question, but Mary does not hear it as an invitation to hope. She hears it as a mirror to her own desperate loss. She answers from the depth of her grief: They have taken away my LORD, and I know not where they have laid him. Notice the shift from the plural 'we' of her first report to the singular 'my.' The body is no longer a shared concern; it has become her own personal loss. This is the voice of someone who loved deeply and who now stands in the wreckage of that love.

She knows only loss. The resurrection possibility has not occurred to her. She speaks of the body as something stolen, something hidden from her, something she must find and restore to proper burial. In her answer, we hear the love and the blindness together. She will not leave. She calls him 'my LORD.' Yet she does not know that the one she is searching for is already present, standing just behind her. Her love will bring her to faith, but first she must speak her sorrow fully.