JAMIE - In John 20:16-17 Jesus telling Mary verse 17 Touch me not JST Hold me notWhat does it Jesus mean ? When we resurrected we show ourselves to Heavenly Father or this apply only to Jesus?
JOEL - It's possible we will, but we don't know why He had to go to the Father first before anyone was allowed to touch him. There were of course many others who did touch him after He was resurrected and went to the Father. It's possible that what He meant when He said "Hold me not" (JST) He was telling Mary not to restrain him from reporting to the Father.That in her joy of seeing Him again it's possible she was already holding on to Jesus when He said this and He was just telling her that she had to let Him go so He could report to the Father. The Greek form of this command "me mou haptou", should be more correctly translated as "do not keep on holding me" or "stop clinging to me."
We will report to God in a sense after the resurection when we are judged and assigned a level of heaven.
