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. …
On Resurrection Sunday, Mary Magdalene and another Mary, the mother of James and Joseph, were the first of Jesus’ followers to discover the empty tomb. They had made arrangements with a number of other women to meet there to complete their burial custom for Jesus’ body, which was hastily interred Thursday evening as the required…
On Thursday evening of passion week Mary Magdalene and another Mary who was the mother of James and Joseph saw the tomb where Joseph and Nicodemus had hastily interred Jesus’ body before the start of the required sabbath for the first day of Unleavened Bread. Sometime on Friday, or the seventh-day Sabbath on Saturday, they…
A number of women who had traveled from Galilee with Jesus to the Passover in Jerusalem had arranged to meet at the tomb early on Sunday morning to complete the burial custom for His dead body. It was hastily interred Thursday evening before the start of the required sabbath for the first day of Unleavened…
Very early on Resurrection Sunday, “there yet being darkness” (Joh 20:1), Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph / Joses came to the tomb where they had seen Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus hastily inter Jesus’ body Thursday evening just as the required sabbath for the first day of Unleavened Bread was…
After Jesus’ death and speedy burial on Thursday evening of Passion week, a number of the women who had followed Him from Galilee to Jerusalem for the Passover had arranged to meet at the tomb Sunday morning to complete the burial custom for His dead body. They were prevented from doing so until then by…