This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today, I am joined by all Grover Fricks to witness the resurrection of Jesus and consider the figure of Miriam the McDowell.

Who?

Who in the world is that?

I will have to see, Brent.

Hopefully people can guess, but...

I don't know. There's a lot of Miriams to juggle in the text, so...

It's true.

But yeah, we have the resurrection in this section, which is pretty exciting.

I don't know about everybody else, but I would have preferred if literally any of the gospel writers could have stopped and for just a minute given us one paragraph of the mechanics of...

And this is what happened when Jesus was dead, and how he got resurrected, and he kind of theological framework to work with. No, just the perspective of the witnesses is what we have here today.

So, oh well.

Yeah, yeah, just one of the things we have to wait to figure out until later, I guess.

Yeah, I suppose.

I suppose. But yeah, so I have a bunch of material to stop you when you're reading the text, and then I've got stuff to talk about.

Miriam the McDowell, like you just said, but you were prepping by listening to an audiobook of this section.

Yes.

And don't get me wrong, I obviously read a lot of scripture out loud, so I understand the plight of trying to get the tone and everything right.

But whenever Mary said her lines, especially the line, they have taken my Lord away, and I don't know where they have put him.

The narrator makes her sound so pitiful.

No, and I don't know how I would do it better because obviously, this is probably one of the most intensely emotional experiences of her life.

Right. They have taken her Lord away, and she doesn't know where he is.

Right.

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