"He is risen, He is risen! The women repeat the words again and again. No need now for the anointing spices. The Saviour is living, and not dead. They remember now that when speaking of His death He said that He would rise again. What a day is this to the world! Quickly the women departed from the sepulcher “with fear and great joy; and did run to bring His disciples word.” DA 789.1"
"And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word."
The EGW passage directly quotes Matthew 28:8, indicating a clear and intentional connection. The context is also the same: the women leaving the sepulcher after the resurrection.
"It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles."
Both passages describe the women telling the apostles about the resurrection. While the EGW passage doesn't directly quote Luke 24:10, it refers to the same event and the role of the women in spreading the news. The connection is thematic, as it highlights the women's role in reporting the resurrection.
taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher, and we know not where they have laid Him.” The disciples hurried to the tomb, and found it as Mary had said. They saw the shroud and the napkin, but they did not find their Lord. Yet even here was testimony that He had risen. The graveclothes were not thrown heedlessly aside, but carefully folded, each in a place by itself. John “saw, and believed.” He did not yet understand the scripture that Christ must rise from the dead; but he now remembered the Saviour's words foretelling His resurrection. DA 789.2 It was Christ Himself who had placed those graveclothes with such care. When the mighty angel came down to the tomb, he was joined by another, who with his company had been keeping guard over the Lord's body. As the angel from heaven rolled away the stone, the other entered the tomb, and unbound the wrappings from the body of Jesus. But it was the Saviour's hand that folded each, and laid it in its place. In His sight who guides alike the star …
"Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him."
The EGW passage directly quotes and expands upon the verse from John 20:2, providing additional details and interpretations of the events surrounding the discovery of the empty tomb.