The first thing I would like to say is that we are dealing here with ancient texts of a specific time that were not written by eyewitnesses. None of the four evangelists was an eyewitness. The only claimant to a resurrection appearance that we know of is Paul, and that “eyewitness” didn’t know Jesus during his lifetime. That is the problem with which we are dealing. In other words, if there were no eyewitnesses, the first step to take (which I have my students do in all of my introductory courses)