On Sunday morning they discovered that Jesus’ tomb was empty.

John 20:1-9

20 Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary, the woman from Magdala village, went to the burial cave with some other women. They saw that the stone had been removed {that someone had removed the stone} from the entrance to the cave. 2 So Mary ran to where Simon Peter and I were staying in Jerusalem. She said to us, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the burial cave, and we do not know where they have put it!” 3 So Peter and I started going to the cave. 4 We were both running, but I ran faster than Peter and got there first. 5 I stooped down at the entrance and looked inside. I saw the strips of linen cloth lying there where his body had been laid, but I did not go inside. 6 Then Simon Peter, who was running behind me, arrived. He went inside the cave. He, too, saw the strips of linen cloth lying there. 7 He also saw the cloth that they had wrapped around Jesus’ head. It had been folded and put {Someone had folded it and put it} aside, separate from the linen strips. 8 Then I also went inside. I saw those things and I believed that Jesus had truly become alive again. 9 Before this happened, we did not understand from what the prophets had written in the Scriptures, that he had to become alive again after he died.