Acts 2:14, 22-33 / Matthew 28:8-15
Two persons looking at the same thing will have different opinions.
That is simply because they have different perceptions.
Individual perceptions are shaped and influenced by a person’s knowledge, presumptions, preferences and other factors.
In the gospel, two groups of people encountered the same phenomenon.
The women, as well as the soldiers, saw the angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled away the stone at the tomb and sat on it.
The soldiers were so shaken, so frightened of him, that they were like dead men.
But the angel spoke and he told the women that Jesus had risen from the dead.
The women went quickly away from the tomb and ran to tell the disciples, and they also met Jesus along the way.
The soldiers, however, went to tell the chief priests about what happened.
The soldiers eventually succumbed to a lie, because there it was too risky to admit the truth.
But the truth is the truth even if no one believes in it.
And a lie is a lie even if everyone believes in it.
May Jesus who is the Truth deepen our faith in His Resurrection.
And the Truth will set us free from whatever presumptions or preferences to succumbing to falsehood.