This verse is part of the resurrection narrative.

She appears twice more in the resurrection narrative at Matthew 27:61 and 28:1.

Even in some cases where two or three of the Evangelists record the same event, their accounts differ considerably (for example, the resurrection narratives).

Then, amazingly, events caught up with it, and the cycles he had already shot (rebirth, the path of life, catastrophic flood, final journey, and part of a resurrection narrative) took on a new intensity.

This is the extent to which Luke, or the source, oral or written, which he was using, has invested the resurrection narrative with the element of myth.

It includes two similar but distinct accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, two distinct birth narratives, and two distinct resurrection narratives.

This verse opens the resurrection narrative as Mary Magdalene and "the other Mary" visit Jesus' tomb after the crucifixion.

Skeptical biblical scholars have questioned the historicity of the resurrection story for centuries; for example, "nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century biblical scholarship dismissed resurrection narratives as late, legendary accounts".

Gundry therefore does not see verse 8 as the intended ending; a resurrection narrative was either written, then lost, or planned but never actually written.

The other, "With Our Own Eyes," includes seven monologues drawn from the resurrection narratives in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.