He Is Not There

“He is Not Here”

All four Gospels tell about the finding of the empty tomb early on Sunday morning. The details do not all agree—how many women? which women? the stone already gone or an angel rolling it back? How many angels and where were they? and just what did they say? But these are not the central features of the story, and we can hardly be surprised to find a certain amount of variation in the way a story of such a mind-blowing event was told and passed down. The main points are not in question…