They would have taken the linen. Desecrators would have left behind their mutilation. Take another look. Deliberately folded and set aside. As they consider the evidence, some of their doubts begin to fade, their fear shrinks.
Hope begins to rise.
The light of a new day, only a glimmer at first, but light nonetheless begins to dawn. Their spirits begin to be buoyed. Here is the place where He lay. More and greater testimony would come. They'd need it.