A lot of movies are like this—confusing most of the way through, but then everything comes together at the end. Most mysteries work this way (for obvious reasons) but so do some dramas—such as “Les Misérables.” It can be tiring to watch a movie while waiting for the dots to connect, but these women are anything but tired. One moment they’re depressed, faithfully carrying out a dreadful duty. The next moment they’re pure adrenaline. Suddenly, the cause of their depression is snatched away.

 

Luke 24:1–9 (ESV)

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.” And they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

This is the emotional climax of scripture and the words Luke uses to describe it are “perplexed” and “frightened.”

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