John 11:38-39, 44
John 20:1-5
Matt 28:1-2,8
John 20:6-7
Mark 16:2-8
John 20:8
Luke 24:1-10
John 20:10
Luke 24:22-24
John 20:14-18
Within a week prior to Jesus's burial there is an empty tomb with burial wrappings left behind.
John 11:
38 Hence Jesus, after groaning again within himself, came to the memorial tomb. It was, in fact, a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39 Jesus said: "T
AKE
the stone away." Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him: "Lord, by now he must smell, for it is four days."
John 11:44 The [man] that had been dead came out with his feet and hands bound with wrappings, and his countenance was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said to them: "Loose him and let him go."
In the dark, Mary Magdalene goes alone to the cemetery to find Jesus's tomb. She sees Lazarus's tomb with the stone rolled away and assumes it is Jesus's tomb.
John 20:1 On the first day of the week Mary Mag'da·lene came to the memorial tomb early, while there was still darkness, and she beheld the stone already taken away from the memorial tomb.
She runs to Simon Peter and the other disciple (John) and tells them what she has seen.
John 20:2 Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, for whom Jesus had affection, and she said to them: "They have taken away the Lord out of the memorial tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him."
Peter is also with John and Simon Peter. Peter and John start off running toward the tomb. John gets there first.
John 20:
3 Then Peter and the other disciple went out and started for the memorial tomb. 4 Yes, the two together began to run; but the other disciple ran ahead of Peter with greater speed and reached the memorial tomb first.
John looks inside and sees Lazarus's burial wrappings but stays outside the tomb.
John 20:5 And, stooping forward, he beheld the bandages lying, yet he did not go in.
We now have one tired man outside the tomb. John sits down to rest.
Mary Magdalene returns with the other Mary to show her the empty tomb.
Matt 28:1 After the sabbath, when it was growing light on the first day of the week, Mary Mag'da·lene and the other Mary came to view the grave.
The two Marys mistake John for an angel.
Matt 28:2 And, notice! a great earthquake had taken place; for Jehovah’s angel had descended from heaven and approached and rolled away the stone, and was sitting on it.
The two Marys run off.
Matt 28:8 So, quickly leaving the memorial tomb, with fear and great joy, they ran to report to his disciples.
Peter still has not showed up at the tomb; but Simon Peter, who was with John and Peter, wanders in. He enters the tomb.
John 20:6 Then Simon Peter also came following him (John), and he entered into the memorial tomb. And he viewed the bandages lying, 7 also the cloth that had been upon his head not lying with the bandages but separately rolled up in one place.
We now have Simon Peter in the tomb and John somewhere outside. Peter's whereabouts is unknown.
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary return with Salome.
Mark 16: 2 And very early on the first day of the week they (Mary M., Mary, Salome) came to the memorial tomb, when the sun had risen.
They enter the tomb and mistake Simon Peter for an angel.
Mark 16:5 When they entered into the memorial tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side clothed in a white robe, and they were stunned. 6 He said to them: "Stop being stunned. Y
OU are looking for Jesus the Naz·a·rene', who was impaled. He was raised up, he is not here. See! The place where they laid him.
Simon Peter knows John is just outside somewhere but still hasn't seen Peter, so he specifically asks the women to tell the disciplees and Peter.
Mark 16:7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of
YOU into Gal'i·lee; there YOU will see him, just as he told YOU .’"
The three women flee and don't tell any disciples yet.
Mark 16:8 So when they came out they fled from the memorial tomb, for trembling and strong emotion were gripping them. And they told nobody anything, for they were in fear.
John now joins Simon Peter in the tomb.
John 20:8 At that time, therefore, the other disciple who had reached the memorial tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed.
We now have two men in the tomb.
Mary Magdalene returns with Joanna and Mary mother of James who had prepared spices for Jesus's body. They enter the tomb and see John and Simon Peter. They mistake them for two angels.
Luke 24:1 On the first day of the week, however, they went very early to the tomb, bearing the spices they had prepared. 2 But they found the stone rolled away from the memorial tomb, 3 and when they entered they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were in perplexity over this, look! two men in flashing clothing stood by them. 5 As the [women] became frightened and kept their faces turned to the ground, the [men] said to them: "Why are
YOU looking for the living One among the dead? ... 10(a) They were the Mag'da·lene Mary, and Jo·an'na, and Mary the [mother] of James....
The other Mary and Salome have gone to find the disciples.
Luke 24:10(b) Also, the rest of the women with them were telling the apostles these things. 11 However, these sayings appeared as nonsense to them and they would not believe the [women].
John and Simon Peter go home.
John 20:10 And so the disciples went back to their homes.
The women meet the disciples at home to discuss what they think has happened.
Luke 24:22 Moreover, certain women from among us also astonished us, because they had been early to the memorial tomb 23 but did not find his body and they came saying they had also seen a supernatural sight of angels, who said he is alive.
Two other disciples leave the house to see for themselves.
Luke 24:24 Further, some of those with us went off to the memorial tomb; and they found it so, just as the women had said, but they did not see him."
Mary Magdalene goes to the tomb again and begins to cry. She looks inside and sees the two disciples who came to see for themselves. She mistakes these two for angels.
John 20:11 Mary, however, kept standing outside near the memorial tomb, weeping. Then, while she was weeping, she stooped forward to look into the memorial tomb 12 and she viewed two angels in white sitting one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been lying. 13 And they said to her: "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them: "They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have laid him."
Mary Magdalene leaves the tomb and sees the gardener. When the gardener calls her by name she thinks he's Jesus.
John 20:14 After saying these things, she turned back and viewed Jesus standing, but she did not discern it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her: "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" She, imagining it was the gardener, said to him: "Sir, if you have carried him off, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." 16 Jesus said to her: "Mary!" Upon turning around, she said to him, in Hebrew: "Rab·bo'ni!" (which means "Teacher!")
The gardener is shocked and tells her to let go of him.
John 20:17 Jesus said to her: "Stop clinging to me....
Mary Magdalene returns to the disciple's home with the news.
John 20:18 Mary Mag'da·lene came and brought the news to the disciples: "I have seen the Lord!" and that he said these things to her.
That this was all a case of mistaken identity is brought home by the additional accounts of the disciples encounters with 'Jesus'.
Matt 28:17 and when they saw him they did obeisance, but some doubted.
Mark 16:12 Moreover, after these things he appeared in another form to two of them walking along, as they were going into the country;
Luke 24:37 But because they were terrified, and had become frightened, they were imagining they beheld a spirit.
Luke 24:16 but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
John 21:4 However, just as it was getting to be morning, Jesus stood on the beach, but the disciples did not, of course, discern that it was Jesus.
