Mark 16 · a question people ask
Mark says the women "said nothing to anyone" (16:8). Do the other Gospels say the same?
They tell it differently, and each is quoted here from its own verse. Mark: "They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid." (16:8). Matthew: "They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word" (Matthew 28:8). Luke: the women "returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest" (Luke 24:9). John: when Mary Magdalene saw the stone taken away, "she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved" (John 20:1-2), and after Jesus spoke to her, "Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord" (John 20:18). Mark's verse says what it says, and these notes don't explain the difference or put the accounts together.
The verses
“They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.”
“They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.”
“returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.”
“Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!””