You can’t blame the women, can you, for being amazed and afraid when they had that most unusual experience on that first Easter morning at the tomb? Wouldn’t you likely have done the same thing? They simply got out of there as fast as they could and didn’t tell anyone about the encounter with the angel (at least, not right away).

Suppose you had buried a loved one, possibly in a mausoleum-type structure, had seen the grave slab sealed into place, and returned a couple days later only to find the entrance wide open, the slab moved away, and the coffin empty. What do you think your reaction would have been? Even if you remembered and rehearsed the words from the burial: "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection," you probably wouldn’t have e…