The women became disturbed and scared when they did not see the body of Christ. They did not know what they had to do. Probably one of them prayed to God, and suddenly two men stood by them in shining garments, with their faces as the shining sun. Now the women were spellbound and motionless. Some of them began to draw back, while the others bowed down to honor the strange forms of the invisible worlds. Those two angels were sent by Christ in his love for the bewildered women to explain to them the impossible thing that the dead Christ is in fact living. They called Christ "the living" and gave him the very attribute of God, testifying his greatness that dwelt in Christ and became evident in his resurrection. They asked the women why they did not believe that the Prince of peace is immortal, and living forever, for everlasting life never dies, even if the weak body were decayed.
The two angels testified to the motionless hearing women that God personally raised his Son, just as a father awakes his child from sleep.
Those two messengers of heaven commanded the women to get rid of their motionlessness and to think over, remember, and grasp the meaning of Christ’s words that he spoke before his crucifixion, saying thrice with all clarity that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful people, and be crucified, and the third day rise again triumphantly.
The word "must", which Christ said when his death was imminent, was not understood by his followers, for they did not understand the redemptive plan of God. They did not know the requirement, or the necessity in Christ’s death on the cross to reconcile men with God. Nor did they recognize resurrection as a required proof of Jesus’ holiness and divinity, for only he who is sinless can defeat death, which is the wages and consequence of sin. As Jesus continued sinless even to the last moment of his life, death had no power over him, and thus he rose from the dead innocently, and triumphantly.
Jesus’ resurrection is the evident proof of his prevalence over all the temptations of sin in his body. It is an incontrovertible evidence of the failure of Satan who could not cause the Just to fall in hatred, unbelief, and despair. Christ’s resurrection is also a proof of the weakness of death with relation to God’s life. After all, the most important thing is that God raised his Son proving that he was pleased with his death as the Lamb of God for all men. Thus we see in Christ’s resurrection the identifying mark of the divine triumph, and the manifestation of the complete salvation. In our days, there is still a church in Russia whose members meet on the Day of the Passover and laugh for quite a while, according to their rites, at sin, death, Satan, and the power defeated by him who rose from the dead. We are completely delivered, and this is the reason for our joyfulness.