Lord’s Day 17, Chapter 1: The Fact of Christ’s Resurrection (2)

To give the answer that the people believed the report of Mary that they had stolen the body of the Lord, as some do, would be too superficial, andsurely unscriptural, an interpretation of the words "and believed." If that had been the meaning of the evangelist he must needs have added: "the words of Mary." No, but he believed that Jesus had risen from the dead. The words that follow: "For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead," do not contradict this...