A woman's testimony was unacceptable

It is of crucial importance to notice in all the accounts that the women were the first to

see the risen Jesus (Jn 20:11-17; Lk 24:1-9; Mrk 16:1-8; Mt 28:1-7). In the first century

women had no legal power as witnesses in a court of law. A woman's testimony was

unacceptable. But it is to the women that Jesus first appears. If the story is fabricated,

why choose women, whose testimony no one would accept, to be the first witnesses? Instead

of being a story concocted by the disciples for their own gain, it appears to be an

historical record of what actually took place.