When you think of the women of Easter, whose faces come to mind?
Certainly Mary, the mother of Jesus, who faced a horror no mother should face as she watched her beloved Son die an agonizing death on a cross.
You may also think of the three women who rushed to the tomb at first light to finish anointing Jesus’s body for burial. God granted Mary Magdalene the honor of being the first to see the risen Christ as she wept at His tomb.
But Easter wouldn’t have been Easter without four other significant women. We seldom think of them in connection with that world-changing Sunday so long ago, but each played a crucial role in the resurrection drama.
