Notice what the angel does here. He recognizes the women’s fear and their anxiety. He acknowledges the fact that even though they saw the Resurrection happen, they did not yet know what it meant. Then he tells them, simply and directly, that Jesus has been raised from the dead. The angel doesn’t even attempt to explain how the Resurrection happened. No word about how a body that had died could come back to life, how a brainwave that had gone flat could be jump-started again, or how cells that had