received teaching from him about his coming death and resurrection. It was not just the Twelve who had been taught these things at Caesarea Philippi, as we might have assumed based on that story in Luke 9:18–27. To the contrary, the women had also been instructed in the crucial coming events in Jesus’s life. They too were intended to play a role in these matters. The men apparently thought that the women’s tale of a risen Jesus was nonsense, “an idle tale,” and “they did not believe them” (Luke 24:11).