It's ironic that in a time when women could not be legal witnesses,
Jesus Christ chose women as the first witnesses of his resurrection.

As British writer Dorothy L. Sayers said: Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross.
They had never known a man like this Man-- there never has been such another.
A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronised; who never made arch jokes about them...
who rebuked without querulousness and praised without condescension: who took their questions and arguments seriously"
Along with his mother and Mary Magdalene were two other close friends of Jesus, Mary and Martha.