The other women[5] entered into the sepulchre, and found not the body of Jesus, but saw two angels, one of whom said to them, “He is not here, he is risen; but go your way and tell his disciples and Peter, that he goeth before you into Galilee, there shall ye see him as he said unto you.” (Why should the Apostles be told that Jesus would go before them into Galilee, if he was to show himself to them that very day at Jerusalem? Both to prepare them for the interview at Jerusalem, and in order that the tidings might be carried to all the disciples, the most of whom were in Galilee.) They departed quickly with fear and great joy, and told these things unto such of the Apostles as they found in the city; but “these words appeared in their sight as idle talk; and they disbelieved them.” (Luke xxiv. 11.) As soon as Peter and John knew from Mary Magdalene, of the open sepulchre, they ran both together, but John outran Peter and came first to the tomb; “and stooping and looking in, he seeth the linen clothes lying; yet entered he not in. Simon Peter therefore also cometh, following him, and enters into the tomb; and he beholdeth the linen clothes lying and the napkin that was upon his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but rolled up in a place by itself. Then entered in therefore the other disciple also, which came first to the tomb, and he saw and believed. For as yet they knew not the Scripture that he must rise again from the dead. So the disciples went away again unto their own home.” (John xx. 1-10.) Such is the circumstantial account given by John of the state of things at the tomb, as they found it before Jesus appeared to any one, and before they had received any information that he had risen from the dead. The body was not there. It could hardly have been removed by friends, and they both be ignorant of it. Had it been taken by enemies? There were the linen clothes, and there, rolled up in a place by itself, was the napkin. Who had arranged them thus? “All had been done calmly, collectedly. Neither earthly friends nor earthly foes had done it; the one would not have stripped the garments from the body, the other would have been at no pains so carefully to arrange[6] and deposit them.” So John must have reasoned and, perhaps recalling what Jesus had said, he _believed_. He believed from what he _saw_, and not from the Scriptures, for as yet he knew not from them, that the Christ “must rise again from the dead.” It is not probable that he then avowed his conviction. He trusted that Jesus would, in due time, reveal himself to them all.