In VELVET ELVIS, Rob Bell makes a brilliant point. In discussing the “principle of first mention,” Bell brings up John's telling of the resurrection. Mary, having found the tomb empty, is weeping in the garden, and Jesus, whom she mistakes for the gardener, comes up to her and asks her why she's crying.1 Bell writes that Mary thinking Jesus is the gardener is significant. The first mention of a garden in the Bible is obviously Eden. Bell says that John is connecting the first Adam with Jesus, the second Adam. Pretty profound. Paul makes this connection both in Romans and in 1 Corinthians.2
It's beautiful that we fall in the garden, and God comes and redeems us in one.
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