From this level of the story we learn what God's people have to learn again and again that despite our notions of what is possible and settled God is unsettling. God is upsetting. That just because we have come to the end doesn't mean God has. That death does not have to have the last word. A woman can become a disciple.
Prayer can change things.
A way can be made out of no way. And life can be transformed or at the least significantly altered. We Christians say we really believe that. Sometimes we even dare to act like we really believe that. Lately I've been reading about the past my past.