Susan and Lucy as Witnesses

I watched The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe on Monday. There's a thread at T&S with a review by Adam Greenwood and others' comments. I agree with a lot of what has been said there. I liked the actors who played the children. I thought there was waaay too much unnecessary suspense, especially the ice floe part. And I hated the Beavers, from how they looked, to how they talked, to how they treated each other. Plus the White Witch really creeped me out. I guess she's supposed to, but I'd always imagined it differently. The film mostly disappointed me in relation to the book. But my younger siblings loved it.

What I want to focus on here is a realization I had. The most touching part of the movie for me was when Susan and Lucy are walking with Aslan to the Stone Table. Because you know what he is going to do. And then when they weep over his body and see his return from death. I had never before made the connection between the Pevensie girls and the women who kept watch at Christ's death, helped prepare his body for burial, and witnessed the resurrection.

Lucy hears Aslan leave the camp and wakes Susan up. The girls follow Aslan. He notices them, asks them if they shouldn't be in bed, but then says he would welcome the company. They see when he is killed.
Matthew 27:55-56: And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children.
Mark 15:40-41: There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome; (Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.
Luke 23:27: And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
John 19:25: Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

After the sacrifice, Susan and Lucy rush to Aslan's side and cry and stroke his face and body. They also see the mice who gnaw off the ropes that bind him.
Matthew 27:61: And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
Mark 15:47: And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.
Luke 23:55-56: And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments.
John 19:40: Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

Susan and Lucy fall asleep. When they wake up, the body of Aslan is gone. Then he appears. He gave himself a willing sacrifice and that transcended the claim the White Witch had on Edmund's life. Aslan sends the girls to notify everyone else.
Matthew 28:1,5-10: IN the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word. And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me. (See also Mark 16:1-10, Luke 24:1-10, and John 20:1-2,11-18).
2 Nephi 2:7: Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law.
Hymns #197: [His] sacrifice transcended The mortal law's demand; . . .In our place [he did] suffer; In our place [he did] die.
Isaiah 25:8: He will swallow up death in victory.