6. The women go back and tell the disciples (Mt 28:8 Mk 16:8 Lk 24:9-11 Jn 20:2) Trembling and bewildered, afraid yet filled with joy, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They initially said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid. Our existing copies of Mark's gospel finish here, and the original ending is lost. So we cannot rule out the possibility that the original (lost) ending tells how the women then told people after all, as the other three gospels testify. But then they ran to tell all these things to the Eleven and all the disciples. Mary Magdalene spoke, saying, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!" Others gave the angels' report. In the confusion [there could well have been all women speaking at once], the disciples did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.