Mark 16:6-8 - He has risen! He is not here.

16:6

The young man/angel tells the women that “Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified, has risen. He is not here. See the place where they laid Him”. There is so much in these few words. First, it is the same Jesus who walked among them for past three years (and, of course, who lived among them for about thirty years) who was crucified. There was no case of Jesus not dying (as, for example, Muslims claim). He was crucified, He died. He was buried, but He is now risen!

16:7,8

The women are told to tell the disciples and Peter “He is going ahead of you to Galilee”. Peter is named specifically because of his denial of Jesus. The others might have been tempted to think that Peter was now out of it. In Mark 14:28 Jesus told them that after the resurrection He would go ahead of them to Galilee. The women are understandably terrified and bewildered. Prior to happening, no one, except Jesus, expected the resurrection to happen, or had any idea what resurrection really meant!