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Let me put it this way:
The people close to Jesus - His disciples - were all experiencing duress, to say the least.
Not only do they fear for their lives, but they were also in confusion since their group is without its Leader.
On top of that, they suddenly had to contend with this event in the tomb, perhaps trying to come to grips as to what this might mean.
To say they could've been in panic-mode, is reasonable.
Surely you can cut them some slack for having differences in their account, considering the circumstances in the last 3 days.....
.....................when you can't even get your own argument straight considering you have all the time and luxury to read Matthew 28 -
and yet, you still messed up!
Except they did not write down their accounts at the time it happened. So they don't have the excuse that they panicked. Maybe memory problems is more like it. Or maybe they just made it up yo justify their beliefs.