Matthew 28:5

‘And the angel answered and said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.” '

But the angel soon put their minds at rest. He informed them that he was aware that they had come seeking Jesus Who had been crucified, or more literally, ‘was and is crucified' (perfect participle). But He is not there. The Lamb Who has been slain is risen (Revelation 5:6).

We learn from the other Gospels that by now there were more women present (see Matthew 27:55) who had by this time caught up with the two who had gone before them in order to consider how to get into the tomb, and that when they arrived the angel was inside the tomb (Mark 16:1; Mark 16:5). But both accounts are summaries of a far more complicated situation. To have explained the full details of all their movements would have taken away from the main message that had to be got over, that Jesus was risen from the dead