He is risen! [He is risen indeed!] This must have been the exclamation that followed Simon Peter and John’s visit to the tomb after hearing from Mary Magdalene that early, dark morning that we call resurrection day. Sometime in the night, something miraculous had occurred. Something had changed. When Mary came to the tomb and found the stone removed, she also found that Jesus was missing. And yet, there was evidence left behind. And that evidence is extremely important to the telling of the resurrection story, because when John and Peter went into the tomb, they did not believe or understand resurrection. When they came out, they may still not have understood, but they did believe. The scripture says literally, “he [John] saw and believed.” But “they as yet did not understand the scripture…