- When?
- Who went?
- What/Who did they encounter?
- What were they told?
- How did they respond?
It was really quite fascinating to see the similarities and differences in the accounts. One girl, afterwards, went on to "check" the others' work, reading each Gospel account and even editing the chart where we had recorded our notes. The only common threads which were found were:
- The First Day / The Sabbath.
- Mary Magdalene (and sometimes other women).
- Sometimes someone, sometimes no one.
- The synoptics all include "He has been raised" but as initially no one is there in John, Mary Magdalene hears nothing.
- Sometimes they go out and tell others and sometimes they tell no one,
Perhaps during this season of Easter you would like to do the same work, pondering what God is saying through these four different Scripture passages. As always when encountering differing versions of one moment we can ask, "What is the deep truth which is being revealed through all of these passages of God's Word?"