Very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, carrying the spices they had
prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the entrance to the tomb, so they went
in; but they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. They stood there puzzled about this,
when suddenly two men in bright shining clothes stood by them. Full of fear, the women bowed
down to the ground, as the men said to them, "Why are you looking among the dead for one who
is alive? He is not here; he has been raised. Remember what he said to you while he was in
Galilee: "The Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, be crucified, and three days later
rise to life.'" Then the women remembered his words, returned from the tomb, and told all
these things to the eleven disciples and all the rest.
The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; they and the other women
with them told these things to the apostles. But the apostles thought that what the women said
was nonsense, and they did not believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; he bent down
and saw the grave cloths but nothing else. Then he went back home amazed at what had happened.
/Luke 24:1-12 GNT