Unaware of the angle's visit and overcome with grief, Mary Magdalene returned to the empty tomb.
Jesus appeared to her there, and after she finally recongnized him , he said:
"Be on your way to my brothers and say to them, "
I am ascending to my Father and to your Father and to my God and to your God."
{ John 20 verse 17}
{ John 20:11-18 } compare { Matthew 28:9,10}

Jesus could have appeared first to Peter, John, or one of the other male disciples.
Instead , he choose to favor theses women by makeing them the first eyewitnesses of his resurrection and commissioning them
to bear witness about it to his male disciples.

How did the men initially react ?