In Matthew's Gospel, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were told by the angel outside the tomb that Jesus was risen. They did not actually look to see if the tomb was really empty, but departed...
The earliest of the four New Testament gospels, which now bears the name of Mark, originally ended with the young man sitting in the empty tomb, telling the women, "He is risen," and the women fled...
There are a number of these, none of which are adequate, given the details given to us. 1. The swoon theory: According to this idea Jesus was not really dead and revived in the cool of the tomb. He...
In Mark's Gospel, there was a young man in the empty tomb, with no suggestion that he was an angel.In Matthew's Gospel, as the women approached, an earthquake moved the stone and an angel came down...