Lo, I have told you. So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples. And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him. Easter says that death is not the last word. And Easter doesn't just say it.
Easter shows it.
There are different stories, there are different witnesses to the resurrection, there are people who saw and responded to Easter in different ways, so that each of us can experience Easter in a way that reaches us where we are. Every year we look at a different gospel. I try to rotate them around, from one year to the next, so that each year we see something new at Easter. Some years we look at Luke's Easter story. It focuses on the two guys who meet Jesus walking along on the road.