The Morning of the Resurrection in the Bible

On the morning of the first day of the week, when the women came to the tomb and found it empty, the world was changed forever. Matthew 28:6 records the words of the angel: "He is not here: for he is risen, as he said." That resurrection morning did not merely confirm Jesus' victory over death; it inaugurated a new era in the history of humanity. The darkness of Good Friday and the silence of the Sabbath gave way to the dawn of a living hope (1 Peter 1:3). Mary Magdalene and the other women, who had come in mourning with spices to anoint a body, were the first to announce the greatest of all news. On that morning, the stone was rolled away not to let Jesus out, but to let the witnesses in. Ever since, every Lord's Day is an echo of that glorious morning: the early church gathered on the first day of the week (Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2), and that day became "the Lord's day" (Revelation 1:10). The morning of the resurrection is therefore the foundation of all Christian hope: because Christ came out of the tomb alive, we too shall rise. Each Sunday the people of God celebrate that the grave could not hold him, and that his triumph is the promise of our own glorious resurrection.