John 20:17 Jesus said unto her, “Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father.” But didn’t he also said on the cross, “into they hands I commit my spirit, Father” Luke 23:46.

Matthew 12:40 “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Jesus saying to God his spirit is committed into his hands, what could it mean? Was the writer of the story of him on the cross, wanted us the readers to envision his life, breath, going back to God? Or was Jesus at that time giving up his entire being to God to finish in death through him what he started in life. He predicted he was going to be in the heart of the earth. We know his body was in the tomb and his spirit in God’s hands. It can only mean one thing, no longer about Jesus being half man and divinity. God was completely in control from this point.

As I prayed and asked for the wisdom, knowledge and understanding of Jesus words, ” Touch me not” Why would Jesus say such a thing? He said such a thing because he was all powers, lots of energy radiating from him. One touch and it can kill. Scripture declares we fight not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities, spiritual wickedness in high places, in which Jesus presence over came in life. Jesus raised from death to life, especially under the circumstances of his death being a sacrifice for all our sins. What a burden he took upon himself, our sins. We all know if he had to battle the devil in life what even a greater battle it must of been in death. He took the sting out of death, he fought and he won the victory, the devil lost. The wages of sin is death, but through Jesus we have everlasting life.

Jesus couldn’t be touched until purification.