Was Mary Magdalene the first person to see the resurrected Jesus?
Following this, Peter and John went to the tomb and then returned, as it appears, did the other women separately, leaving Mary there alone. Jesus then appeared to her first. Mark is the only Gospel to record this fact, since such ‘me first’ priorities were not particularly relevant to the Gospel writers, especially when compared to the stupendous life-changing fact of the resurrection. That the others merely recorded, in no particular sequence, who Jesus appeared to cannot at all be taken as any kind of contradiction to Mark, since they simply do not mention who was first.
