I was thinking about it as if an actual event. Surely the jewish people of the time, had thoughts on magic, death etc. Perhaps even prohibitions on certain kinds of magic? The thought of a 4 day old corpse coming alive to my modern thinking is pretty terrifying.
I wonder why the story is so benignly depicted in the bible.
The Jews did call Jesus a “sorcerer” but that was not the real issue. There were at that time street-magicians who could do all Jesus’ miracles “for a few obols.” Jesus’ miracles were “nothing worth hearing of.”
The deeper issue was that Jesus proclaimed himself the Messiah. There was an “enigmatic prophecy” popular among Gentiles and Jews alike that the Messiah “was fated for the empire of the world.” Even gentiles took this seriously.
The Romans wished for Caesar himself to fulfill the prophecy and claim Messianic status. Jesus, by attributing these prophesies to himself, might get so popular that Caesar would attack rather than yield the right to claim Messianic status to some Jewish geek. This would mean war.
What frightened them was not the resurrection itself, but the prospect of war, invoked by the fulfillment of Messianic prophecy. “Your dead will live; their bodies will rise.”