Luke offers more empty tomb, post-resurrection information than does any of the other gospel writers.

Ever sensitive to the Jewishness of his subjects, Luke carefully links the astounding newness of the Resurrection to a respect for such basic traditions as obedient Sabbath observance. Luke 23:56b, which may be included as part of 24:1, clearly states that, according to the Mosaic commandments, everyone rested on the Sabbath. Not until the "first day of the week," the day after the Sabbath, did any of the disciples move toward the tomb. Just as it was only the women disciples who had stayed at the cross to see where Jesus' body was taken, it is only the women who venture out at the earliest hour possible to perform a final loving task for their master anointing his dead body for burial.

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