![]() ![]() Luke records the women's experience clearly enough: "But at daybreak on the first day of the week they took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. "The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna and Mary the mother of James," as well as the unnamed "others who accompanied them" (24:10). ![]() Luke presents us with a number of women at the empty tomb. This, ironically, reveals a historical reality that the early Church and the Gospel writers themselves seem to have worried might cast doubt on their testimony that Jesus had truly risen from the dead. The first witnesses to the reality of the empty tomb were women (or just Mary of Magdala, in John's account). There is, however, in each of the Gospel accounts of the resurrection a common thread. This side of our own graves, the closest most of us will come to a proof of Jesus' resurrection is the joy the Holy Spirit spills into our hearts when we embrace the message, "He is risen." Instead of encountering each Gospel's witness to our faith in Jesus' resurrection, we might find ourselves arguing with doubt and demanding proof. Wanting all four of the Gospels to give the same account of, or at least to agree on, all the details surrounding the Easter morning events at the empty tomb might lead us in the wrong direction altogether. Is there a young man (Mark), or two men (Luke), or an angel at the tomb (Matthew)? Or is there no man or angel at all, except for Jesus himself standing just outside the tomb (John)? ![]() In no two of the Gospels do all the same disciples appear at the tomb and the order in which they appear also differs. Each Gospel records the event a little differently. This is the 12th column in a 14-part seriesĪssociate Director, Little Rock Scripture StudyĬomparing all four Gospel accounts of the disciples' experiences at the empty tomb on that first Easter morning can be challenging. ![]()
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