Why does the empty tomb still matter? A sign of forgiveness: When Mary Magdalene peered into the tomb, she saw two angels where Jesus’ body had been, an image echoing the cherubim on the Ark of ...

Of the four gospel accounts of what happened at Jesus’ tomb on Easter morning, Matthew’s is the most embellished, for it alone places guards at the tomb, names the tomb’s owner, reports a ...

In Matthew there is one angel (with clothing white as snow) who sat on the stone; in Mark one young man sitting inside the tomb, in a white robe; in Luke two men in dazzling clothes, standing; and ...

Through her weeping, Mary sees two angels sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying. The angels ask her why she's crying; and she tells them that someone has taken Jesus away.

The angels who announced to Mary Magdalene and "the other Mary" that Jesus had risen from the dead made the most important announcement in history, said Dr. Ben Gutierrez of Richmond, Virginia.

An angel commissions the two women to proclaim both Jesus’s resurrection and his anticipated appearance in Galilee. As they leave the tomb with both fear and joy, they encounter Jesus and ...