Mark 16 explained

At the tomb the young man sends the women to the very place Mary Magdalene had seen him laid (15:47): "See the place where they laid him!" (16:6). And the message names one disciple: "tell his disciples and Peter" (16:7), the Peter who had remembered Jesus's words and wept (14:72). Jesus had said it on the last night: "after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee" (14:28).

"When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint him" (16:1) (tap anoint). Mary Magdalene is named at the cross, at the burial and here. At the cross, women were "watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome" (15:40). At the burial, "Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid" (15:47), and Joseph of Arimathaea "rolled a stone against the door of the tomb" (15:43-46). Now "They were saying among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”" (16:3), "for it was very big" (16:4). They came with spices, and with a question about the stone. "Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back" (16:4). Mark doesn't say who rolled it.

The women "bought spices, that they might come and anoint him" (16:1). At Bethany, Jesus had said of a woman who poured ointment over his head, "She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying" (14:8). The women came with spices to anoint him, and the young man told them, "He is not here" (16:6).

Mark 16:1 · Mark 14:3 · Mark 14:8 · Mark 16:6

Mark 8:31→leads toMark 16:6

Jesus "began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again" (Mark 8:31), and "He spoke to them openly" (Mark 8:32). At the tomb, a young man sitting on the right side (Mark 16:5) says to them, "You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen! He is not here." (Mark 16:6). Jesus says it again in Mark 9:31 and 10:33-34.

ἐγείρωegeirosay eg-EE-ro

Strong's: "to waken (transitively or intransitively), i.e. rouse", and "from death" is among the senses it lists. "He has risen! He is not here." (16:6). It is the verb of Jesus's own words on the last night: "However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee" (14:28). It comes once more in this chapter, of those "who had seen him after he had risen" (16:14). Mark has it 18 times, counted in the Byzantine text the WEB translates. In 8:31, 9:31 and 10:34 the WEB's rise again is another verb, anistemi (G450), which Favor's chapter on Mark 8 studies.

The women set out before they knew how the stone would be moved: "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?" (16:3). Where are you waiting to know how something will work out before you take the first step?