1. On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. 2. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they put him." 3. So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. 4. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; 5. he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. 6. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, 7. and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. 8. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. 9. For they did not yet understand the scripture that he had to rise from the dead. 10. Then the disciples returned home. 11. But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb 12. and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been. 13. And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken my Lord, and I don't know where they laid him." 14. When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus. 15. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" She thought it was the gardener and said to him, "Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him." 16. Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni," which means Teacher. 17. Jesus said to her, "Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" 18. Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and what he told her.
This account always moves me; the sadness of Mary Magdalene when she thinks that Christ's body has been stolen and the joy when she recognizes the risen Christ. Her joy is such that she has no fear of him; she knows he is not a ghost or a mere apparition. John the Evangelist does not even need to tell us that she hugged him, it is conveyed by Christ's words to her to stop holding on to him, for her joy is so great that otherwise she will, presumably, never let him go. No stage direction is needed, that she is overcome with emotion and immediately embraces the Lord is assumed.
We know, from the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:9), that Mary had seven devils cast out her by Christ before she became a disciple, so she understands Christ's power, and knows that He is, indeed, the Son of God. Yet her joy is so great that it overwhelms the fear that the disciples feel whenever Christ's power is revealed -- in walking on water, in the Transfiguration -- for Mary Magdalene, whose faith was brought out of the depths of fear by the mercy of the Lord, for who can imagine the torment of being possessed by seven demons, her faith is an act of pure joy. She who had, perhaps, of all the disciples, the greatest appreciation of Christ's power and sovereignty, understands that He is love, that the theophanic acts of Christ are not meant to induce terror, but are meant to demonstrate that overarching love. She does not refer to him as "Lord", or "my healer", or "my deliverance", or even by his name, but refers to him as "teacher" -- for she does not see herself as merely a woman who was delivered, but as someone priviliged to share His company, to study as His feet. She who felt the great demonstration of His power was more moved by the simple love conveyed in His parables than by the fact that he was given the name above all other names.
Some people need signs, and some need proofs. Some need demonstrations of His power.
Some people merely need to have their name called.
To me, the greatest evidence that the Resurrection took place is what the Apostles did afterward. They did what they were asked. The preached to all nations and baptized in the name of the Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit. Had they not, we would never have heard of Jesus or known of his Resurrection. They did so through fire and sword, stonings and persecutions, crucifixions and martyrdoms. These are not the acts of men perpetrating a fraud or looking out for their own best interest. These are the acts of men and women who have seen and believed, and whose joy is such that they cannot contain it. The world is nothing next to knowing Him: our maker, redeemer, and friend, our teacher, our Lord.