All these accounts show alike the engrossing affection of these women’s hearts for the One whom they had known and followed, bound as they had been to Him by indestructible ties through the grace they had received at His hands. Nothing, therefore, was too precious in their estimation to lavish upon His body, and thus it was that with eager feet they sped their way in the early morning of this first day of the week—with not a thought of the surprise that awaited them. Their first perplexity was thus expressed, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher? And when they looked they saw that the stone had been rolled away: for it was very great. Before following the narrative in John, one thing not mentioned there may be considered. Mark tells us explicitly that, on discovering that the stone had been rolled away, the Magdalene, with Mary and Salome, entered into the sepulcher, and that “they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.” Immediately the “young man,” discerning their fear, said, “Be not affrighted,” and, announcing to them the fact of the resurrection, commissioned them to go to His disciples and Peter with the blessed tidings, and to tell them that the Lord would go before them into Galilee, adding, “There shall ye see Him, as He said unto you.” How far they discharged their mission we are not told: the only thing we learn (but see verses 9-10, though this must refer to a later hour in the day) is that, overcome with fear, they fled from the sepulcher, and that they said nothing to any man for they were afraid.