NOTES for Mar 16:6
The angel whom the women who have come to the Teacher's tomb meet gives them astonishing news: "He is risen." Thus a fact comes into the world that lies at the foundation of the Christian faith. I want to stress: not the idea of God-manhood, not the beauty of Jesus' moral teaching, but a fact. And Christianity is not theological constructions, but the acceptance of this fact into one's own biography. See how the content of the verse we have read helps this.
First of all, the news is brought by an angel, a messenger from God, which means the information he transmits has a supernatural level of truth. He begins with the words: "Do not be amazed." This is how God begins practically every contact of His with a human being, making it clear that His almightiness will not be directed against the person. "You seek Jesus of Nazareth": the matter is not an abstract idea, but a completely concrete Man who lived a real earthly life. "Who was crucified": without death, more precisely without sacrifice, still more precisely without an execution voluntarily accepted for my sins, Jesus has no relation to me, to my biography. "He is risen": this is the center of the message, meaning Christ's victory over death, every death, and therefore mine too. "He is not here": Christ cannot be "caught" by any place, including a tomb. He is free and able to free us.
But all this is not merely an abstraction, not a purely spiritual event: "See the place where He was laid." All this happens in time and space, where our own life also unfolds, now able to receive Christ's resurrection.