The passion and death of Jesus initiated a process through which the old order was passing away and a new was dawning. At the death of Jesus, Matthew reports that many strange events took place: darkness, earthquake and holy people rising from their tombs. Similar events occur in Matthew's story of the resurrection of Jesus. "Towards dawn on the first day of the week", the women who had stood firm through the tragedy of the Cross, Mary Magdala and the other Mary go to visit the sepulcher of...