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    Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 2
    • Jesus is addressed by Mary Magdalene as “Rabboni” (My Teacher), also by a blind man whom he healed.

  • Rabboni
    Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 2
    • RABBONI

      (Rab·boʹni).

      A Semitic word meaning “My Teacher.” (Mr 10:51) It may be that “Rabboni” was a more respectful form than “Rabbi,” which title of address means “Teacher,” or that it conveyed more personal warmth. (Joh 1:38) However, when John wrote, perhaps the first person suffix (i) on this word had lost its special significance in the title, since John translates it as meaning merely “Teacher.”​—Joh 20:16.

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