The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

One of the greatest messages of the empty tomb was told by the grave clothes and the napkin (John 20:6-7). In the resurrection of Lazarus he came forth from the tomb bound hand and foot with the grave clothes.

It was necessary to loose him from those by unwinding the grave clothes. (John 11:44. 

What was so startling to Peter and John in the resurrection of Jesus Christ was the fact that the grave clothes and napkin were in their place untouched like they had been when the body was there but now the body was gone. It was not necessary to unwind any grave clothes for Jesus to arise. He simply came out of them. 

Likewise it was not necessary for the stone to be rolled back for Jesus to arise. The stone was not rolled back to make the resurrection possible; it was rolled back to show the world the empty tomb.