Why does it matter that women were the first witnesses to the empty tomb?
✓Fact-checked & reviewed for Nicene orthodoxyHow we review →All four Gospels report that the first witnesses to the empty tomb were women. In first-century Jewish and Roman culture, a woman's testimony was so devalued it often wasn't even accepted in a court of law.
If you were fabricating a story to convince that society, you would never hand the most important moment to witnesses no one would believe. You'd put respected men there instead. The fact that the Gospel writers kept this embarrassing detail is a strong sign they were reporting what actually happened rather than crafting effective propaganda. Awkward, unhelpful details like this are a fingerprint of history.