What happensPermalink
An angel greets Mary and Mary Magdalene to inform them Jesus is risen. Jesus meets them on their way to tell the disciples. The chief priests bribe the elders to say Jesus’s disciples stole the body. Jesus gives the Great Commission.
Why it mattersPermalink
The most important event in history is proclaimed to women by an angel, making them the first to preach, “He is risen!” Jesus inaugurates the church age by commissioning His eleven disciples to make more.
Key versePermalink
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”