In what has become one of the most enigmatic passages in all of Scripture, John writes that upon entering the tomb of Jesus, Peter “beheld the linen wrappings lying there, and the face-cloth, which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself” (Joh 20:6-7). …
After being informed by Mary Magdalene on Resurrection Sunday that Jesus’ body was gone from the grave in which it had been placed, Peter raced off to the tomb, perhaps with a tiny glimmer of hope that what seemed impossible to him might somehow be true, but mostly to salvage what he could of his…
After arriving at the tomb very early on Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph discovered that the tomb was empty where they had seen Joseph inter Jesus’ body Thursday evening. They found the stone rolled away from it when they arrived, not realizing it had been removed just moments…
On the first day of the week after Jesus’ crucifixion, following the sabbath rest for the first day of Unleavened Bread on Friday and then the seventh day Sabbath on Saturday (cf. Mat 28:1, where the Greek literally reads, “after the Sabbaths”), the tomb where Jesus was interred was discovered to be empty. A number…
Very early in the morning on Resurrection Sunday, before Jesus appeared to anyone in His glorified, resurrection body, a faith-event occurred to test the faith of His followers. A group of women who had followed Him from Galilee to the Passover in Jerusalem had arranged to meet at the tomb to complete the burial custom…
On Resurrection Sunday, before Jesus Himself appeared to anyone, there were several appearances of angels to the women who came to the tomb to complete their burial custom for His dead body, but no such appearances to Jesus’ disciples. This appears to have been to test and increase the faith of all His followers according…
Before Jesus’ resurrection appearances on that first day of the week three days after His death the Scripture indicates that there were three separate appearances of angels to the women from Galilee who had arranged to meet early that morning to complete their burial custom for Jesus’ body. The first appearance was to Mary Magdalene…
While Mary Magdalene ran to tell Peter and John what they had discovered at the tomb, the other Mary who was with her ran to tell others, and quite possibly ran into the other women with whom they had arranged to meet at the tomb early on that Sunday morning when Jesus was raised from…
After their initial discovery of the empty tomb on Resurrection Sunday, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph fled in fear, both from the dream-like vision of the angel saying Jesus had risen, and from the danger they supposed they could be in from the Roman soldiers for being followers of Him…
Our gospel accounts of the resurrection indicate that although Mary Magdalene and another Mary[1] were the first to discover the empty tomb, they were part of a larger group of women including Salome (Mar 14:1) and Joanna and at least one more (Luk 24:10) who had arranged to meet at the tomb on Sunday morning. …