Ever go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City? [Insert the equivalent destination museum in your community.] You cannot hope to see everything in that vast space in one trip. Visit with children in tow and I guarantee you’ll see the Egyptian mummies and tombs and the massive suits of armor on display in the medieval collection. Even though there are rooms and rooms of Old Masters paintings and Impressionist masterpieces, with children in tow be prepared to miss them on your first visit.

The four different gospels, with their four different angles on the empty tomb of Easter morning, are each unique for that same reason. The central experience — the historical veracity of the empty tomb and of Jesus’ physical resurrection — stands at the heart of all four gospels. But each com…