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Matthew 28:9-10 Luke 24:9b-11 John 20:2; Why Mary Magdalene didn't know
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"By this reckoning Mary Magdalene and perhaps others left the tomb before the angelic messengers arrived, since it is obvious in John that she hadn't gotten the message yet.

Matthew 28:9-10 And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
Luke 24:9b-11 and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest. It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
John 20:2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
Most harmonizers would say here, and I could easily agree, that Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary of James left the party first, before the angels came in (and hence, Mark's report for example is telescoped, due to stylistic and/or space constraints) and went directly to Peter and others (the "we" of John's party), while other unnamed women like Salome went to other disciples and received a visitation. "

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