It looks very much as if the news of the empty tomb had got back to Rome in a garbled form.
The empty tomb is a fiction - Jesus was not raised bodily from the dead.
Verse 8 ends with the women fleeing from the empty tomb, and saying "nothing to anyone, because they were afraid."
The marble monument includes an empty tomb with her name on it.
Convince me with your top four or five reasons that the empty tomb is a historical fact.
On several of my expeditions I had set up housekeeping in an empty tomb.
On the morrow, the husband and father, having discovered the empty tomb, came to claim her.
"I'm not an excavator and I don't spend my time looking at empty tombs."
"Why would there be an empty tomb in the pyramids?"
But in the event their role is much more important as witnesses to the empty tomb.