It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. 12 Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened. Many people object to the veracity of the Resurrection account.
Cemeteries are full of corpses.
We've all attended more than our share of funerals and never once has the dead person came back from the grave to live with us. Doubters scoff at the Bible's account of Jesus' resurrection as being the wishful thinking of men and women who just couldn't let go of the hopes and dreams that they had built around Jesus. They dismiss the story as coming from men and women who were unsophisticated, gullible, too ready to tell an impossible tale. The Bible record just doesn't support that conclusion. In the opening verses of our text, we learned that Joseph of Arimathea took Jesus' body for burial.