So, the Gospels more or less agree that a group of women went to the tomb on Sunday (the first day of the week?).
Mark says that “they saw a young man dressed in a white robe.”
Matthew says that the women met an angel.
Luke says that the women met “two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning.”
John says that Mary Magdalene found an empty tomb, no mention of angels or men.
If these observations are meant to suggest that the Gospels are contradicting each other, think again, then try to harmonize the accounts.
1. It was early in the morning of the first day of the week (what we call Sunday) "when the sabbath was past" (Mark) and all the Gospels agree.
2. However, John focuses on Mary Magdalene, Matthew on Mary Magdalene
and "the other Mary" (the mother of James), Mark
adds Salome to the list, and Luke gives us
the complete picture -- "they" meaning "the women also, which came with him from Galilee" (as stated in his previous chapter).
3. Matthew identifies the one angel (wearing a long white garment and radiating light) who rolled away the stone from the door, and Mark calls him a "young man" who was then found sitting. Luke indicates that a second angel joined him (shortly thereafter)
to address all the women, and John says that these two angels spoke to Mary later on,
after Peter and John had viewed the empty tomb and departed.
So to sum up:
1. Early in the morning on the first day of the week, all the women who had accompanied Jesus came with prepared sweet spices to anoint (embalm) Christ, presuming that His body was still in the tomb. Two angels (one of which had rolled away the stone) met them within the tomb and informed them that Christ was risen, and told them to go quickly to inform the other disciples.
2. All the women departed quickly as urged by the angels, but Mary Magdalene probably ran the fastest, although she informed Peter and John that
Christ was MISSING (not risen) --
"They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him", and returned with them to the tomb.
3. Peter and John also discovered that the tomb was empty, and believed that Christ was risen, then departed (presumably to inform the other disciples). However Mary Magdalene had still not believed that He was risen, and stood weeping outside, while thinking that someone had laid Christ somewhere else. Even though the angels had told her earlier (along with the other women)
she had simply not believed up to that point, so Christ appeared to her and settled her doubts. But before He appeared those two angels came and asked Mary why she was weeping, and when she turned around she saw the Lord.
It is generally assumed that Mary Magdalene was the first to believe that Christ was risen, when actually she was the last among the women (just as Thomas was the last among the apostles).