After the Sabbath,
and toward dawn on the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala and the other
Mary went to visit the sepulcher. And all at once there was a violent earthquake,
for the angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled away the
stone and sat on it. His face was like lightening, his robe as white as snow.
The guards were so shaken, so frightened of him, that they were like dead
men. But the angel spoke; and he said to the women, |