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Touch me not (mē mou haptou). Present middle imperative in prohibition with genitive case, meaning “cease clinging to me” rather than “Do not touch me.” Jesus allowed the women to take hold of his feet (ekratēsan) and worship (prosekunēsan) as we read in Mat 28:9. The prohibition here reminds Mary that the previous personal fellowship by sight, sound, and touch no longer exists and that the final state of glory was not yet begun. Jesus checks Mary’s impulsive eagerness.
For I am not yet ascended (oupō gar anabebēka). Perfect active indicative. Jesus is here at all only because he has not yet gone home. He had said (Joh 16:7) that it was good for them that he should go to the Father when the Holy Spirit will come through whom they will have fellowship with the Father and Christ.
My God (theou mou). Jesus had said “My God” on the Cross (Mar 15:34). Note it also in Rev 3:2. So Paul in Rom 15:6, etc., has “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”