Henry Osawa Tanner’s “The Three Marys” (1910)
RESURRECTION WOMEN There were always women His mother first of course as with us all. Her cousin who knew the mother’s fate long before. His friend from Magdala. Those who begged and were rewarded. The beauty at the well. The women at the end who were the first to see - as the men were frightened & hiding and the Romans drunk & sleep addled - the light shining from the tomb onto the women unto the day and into the world. The women carried the news as they have always carried the new. RW
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