249. The Apostles’ Disbelief of the Women’s Words; the Appearance of the Lord to Peter. The Third. Lk. 24:9–12; Mk. 16:10–11; Lk. 24:34; 1 Cor. 15:5

The women, having returned from the tomb, reported all that they had seen and heard to the eleven Apostles and to all the others. These were Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, Salome and others with them, who reported this to the Apostles.

Joanna reported this with the others. And their words seemed to the Apostles like idle talk, and they did not believe them.

Mary Magdalene reported to those who had been with the Lord, weeping and lamenting, what she had seen and heard. But they, hearing that He was alive and that she had seen Him, did not believe.

They did not believe the words of Mary of James with Salome either.

But Peter, rising up, ran to the tomb and, bending down, saw the linen cloths lying there; and he went away marveling to himself at what had come to pass.

After this the Lord appeared to Cephas, Simon Peter.