Mark’s Easter story is missing something.

I never noticed it before because the tomb was there… the women followers of Jesus were there, ready to honor his body. After Jesus’ death, they followed the body to see where it was buried. They waited, anxiously, until the sabbath was over, and then hurried to honor Jesus in death, and to grieve for him. We heard them fret about huge the stone in front of the grave and wonder if they can find someone to help them roll it away. The mysterious figure was there to give the news.

Then before this version — in Mark’s version of the story — there’s no Jesus.

In fact, the messenger says: “He is not here.”

Um, this is Easter — if he’s not here, where is he?

The women didn’t wait around to ask too many questions. They rushed off, as the story says, seized by “…