Gustave Doré, Two of the women disciples of Jesus encounter an angel in his empty tomb (Mt. 28:5—6). Image courtesy WikiMediaCommons. 1 Early on the morning of the first day of the week,1 while it was still dark, Mary from Magdala came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been taken away from …
First-century Jewish tomb, Tombs of Herod's Family,Jerusalem, Israel. Courtesy BAS Library. 1 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany,1 the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived. 2 (Mary was the woman who poured perfume on the Lord’s feet and wiped them with her hair.2 It was her brother Lazarus who was …
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