“Full of feeling somehow is the female sex, and more inclined to pity. I say this, lest thou shouldest wonder how it could be that Mary wept bitterly at the tomb, while Peter was in no way so affected. For, "The disciples," it saith, "went away unto their own home"; but she stood shedding tears. Because hers was a feeb…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on the Gospel of John 86
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11But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,
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9For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
10Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.
— John 20:11 —
12And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
13And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my LORD, and I know not where they have laid him.