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 the Covenant over the Mercy Seat.

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 ...