Isn't is strange that on Easter morning at the breaking of dawn, when Mary came to the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus, she reacted the way she did? She ran to tell Peter that the tomb was empty, not that Jesus had risen, but that the tomb was empty! And Peter and John, upon hearing the news, ran to the gravesite to see for themselves. They looked into the tomb, saw the burial clothes and the napkin for Jesus' head rolled up separately, and it doesn't even seem that they remembered the words of Jesus that he would rise on the third day.

"Why?" we wonder. Why do we have an accounting of these details about the fear of looking and the way the grave clothes are lying when seemingly they should have been excitedly sharing the news that Jesus had risen?

Perhaps the reason for these seemingly…