The gospels record women as the first witnesses to the resurrection. This is a mark of the authenticity of the accounts, as if they were trying to make it up it is highly unlikely that they would have had women as the first witnesses.
The women went to the tomb expecting to pay their respects, to tend to the grave. They were not expecting Jesus to be alive. This is another argument against those who disbelieve the resurrection. The notion that people were either gullible or were somehow expecting Jesus to come back to life is simply totally without foundation.
They expected the stone to be over the grave, but when they got there it had been moved. They saw a young man dressed in white. Matthew says he was an angel. So another misconception is gone. Angels in the Bible often appear as men.
The man or angel tells the women that Jesus is risen and they are to go and tell the disciples. All that Jesus had said would happen had happened.
The women were afraid.
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