He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,
The women came to the tomb carrying spices for a body. They weren't expecting news, they were expecting a task — one final, grief-soaked errand for someone who was gone. Instead they get a question that undoes everything: why do you seek the living among the dead?
"He is not here, but has risen" is not a soft consolation offered to grieving people. It's a flat statement of fact that reorganizes everything that came before it. And notice what the angels do next — they don't leave it floating. They point back: remember what he told you, while he was still in Galilee. The proof isn't only the empty tomb. It's that this had been said all along.
If you've approached faith expecting only comfort or metaphor, this scene resists that. It's presented as something that actually happened, to specific women, on a specific morning, confirmed by words spoken earlier that they were now able to recall.
If you've treated the resurrection as a nice story rather than a claimed event, it's worth asking what it would mean if the women at that tomb were simply telling the truth.
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.