The other women ran to tell the disciples what they had seen. Mary Magdalene stayed.
But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping.
John 20:11
The reason goes unstated. Whether grief had paralyzed her, whether she longed to understand more, whether she simply could not leave the place, the text leaves open; it records only that she stayed.
And as she bent down to look inside the tomb, she saw two figures.
...she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and the other at the feet.
John 20:12
Two angels, one where the head had been, the other where the feet had been. In the Tabernacle of the Old Testament, two cherubim flanked the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant, one cherub at each end, marking the place where God met with His people.
Mary, without recognizing the symbolism, answers them as someone simply searching for a body:
Because they have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put Him.
John 20:13
To her, the angels were only strangers, the place only a tomb. The deeper truth still escaped her: the body was gone because it had walked out.
She was only weeping.