He is risen, he is not here

On that morning...

Many women walked to this tomb, right? Prince already began the sermon for me, so I'm so glad.

If you go through Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, you will see the names of these women who went there.

If you read Matthew 28, verse 1... you will see the name of Mary Magdalene and there is a mention of the other Mary.

That's all.

But if you read Mark 16.1, you will see Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome.

So you have three names there.

Then if you go to Luke, Luke has done a little bit more research.

It's a scholarly work, okay? Luke is a scholarly work.

And so he's getting down history neatly, systematically.

So Luke goes a little further and he names a little bit more.

He says Mary Magdalene was there.

So all of them approve that Mary Magdalene was there.

He names a woman by the name Joanna.

And then he talks about Mary, the mother of James.

and the other women.

We don't know who the other women were.

There could be a couple of more.

And then if you read John, John talks about Mary Magdalene alone.

And so we see Mary Magdalene in all these places.

So she is one of the strong witnesses we have.

Now, let me explain this to you a little bit so that you understand.

Again, I thank Prince for bringing that up.

We live in the 21st century where women have a lot of freedom.

But 2,000 years back, What a woman says is not valid, especially among the Jewish culture.