Tell us, O all ye witnesses of the resurrection, how you had lost all hope, but then he came to you and revived you, and you began to believe the unbelievable; you started to hope the unimaginable; you dared to trust the impossible, that Christ who was dead had—could it be?—actually risen from the dead, as he had said he would. For our hearts burn within us this day.

There was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the tomb. How faithful were these women!

Would you see Jesus? Then consider the bidding of Pilate (of all people!), and behold the man, precisely where he is designated the King of the Jews.