Mark 16:7

go your way Practical action must take the place of vague astonishment. There was a message to be borne.

and Peter No wonder it is in the Gospel of St Mark we find this wondrous touch. Who afterwards would have been so likely, as the Apostle himself, to treasure up this word, the pledge of possible forgiveness, after the dreadful hours he must have spent during Friday night, Saturday, and Saturday night? What story would he have so often told to his son in the faith either in Eastern Babylon or the capital of the West?

he goeth before you as a true Shepherd before His sheep. It is the same word which (a) He Himself used on the evening of the Betrayal, "After I am risen again, I will go before youinto Galilee" (Matthew 26:32; Mark 14:28); which (b) is applied to the star "going before" the Magi at His nativity, and (c) to His own "going before" His Apostles on the road towards Jerusalem, where He was to suffer. See note above, ch. Mark 10:32.