While the Saviour was in God's presence, receiving gifts for His church, the disciples thought upon His empty tomb, and mourned and wept. The day that was a day of rejoicing to all heaven was to the disciples a day of uncertainty, confusion, and perplexity. Their unbelief 793 in the testimony of the women gives evidence of how low their faith had sunk. The news of Christ's resurrection was so different from what they had anticipated that they could not believe it. It was too good to be true, they thought. They had heard so much of the doctrines and the so-called scientific theories of the Sadducees that the impression made on their minds in regard to the resurrection was vague. They scarcely knew what the resurrection from the dead could mean. They were unable to take in the great subject.

Medens Frelseren stod for Guds ansigt og modtog gaver til sin menighed, tænkte disciplene på hans tomme grav og sørgede og græd. Denne dag, som for hele Himmelen var en glædesdag, var for disciplene en dag med uvished, forvirring og rådvildhed. Deres manglende tillid til kvindernes vidnesbyrd er et bevis for, hvor dybt deres tro var sunket. Meddelelsen om Kristi opstandelse var så forskellig fra, hvad de havde forventet, at de ikke kunne tro på den. De syntes, at dette var for godt til at kunne være sandt. De havde hørt så meget om saddukæernes lærdomme og deres såkaldte videnskabelige teorier, at de kun gjorde sig et uklart begreb om, hvad opstandelse ville sige. De vidste knap, hvad opstandelse fra de døde kunne betyde. De var ikke i stand til at fatte dette store emne.