1 Now on the first day of the week, Mary
Magdalene went early, while it was still
dark, to the tomb, and saw that the stone
had been taken away from the tomb.
2 Therefore she ran and came to Simon
Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus
loved, and said to them, “They have taken
away the Lord out of the tomb, and we
don’t know where they have laid him!”
3 Therefore Peter and the other disciple
went out, and they went toward the tomb.
4 They both ran together. The other disciple
outran Peter and came to the tomb first.
5 Stooping and looking in, he saw the
linen cloths lying there; yet he didn’t enter
in.
6 Then Simon Peter came, following him,
and entered into the tomb. He saw the
linen cloths lying,
7 and the cloth that had been on his head,
not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled
up in a place by itself.
8 So then the other disciple who came
first to the tomb also entered in, and he
saw and believed.
9 For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture,
that he must rise from the dead.
10 So the disciples went away again to
their own homes.
11 But Mary was standing outside at the
tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped
and looked into the tomb,
12 and she saw two angels in white sitting,
one at the head and one at the feet,
where the body of Jesus had lain.
13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you
weeping?”
She said to them, “Because they have
taken away my Lord, and I don’t know
where they have laid him.”
14 When she had said this, she turned
around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t
know that it was Jesus.
15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are
you weeping? Who are you looking for?”
She, supposing him to be the gardener,
said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him
away, tell me where you have laid him,
and I will take him away.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!”†
which is to say, “Teacher!”‡
17 Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for
I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but
go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am
ascending to my Father and your Father, to
my God and your God.’ ”
18 Mary Magdalene came and told the
disciples that she had seen the Lord, and
that he had said these things to her.
19 When therefore it was evening on that
day, the first day of the week, and when
the doors were locked where the disciples
were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus
came and stood in the middle and said to
them, “Peace be to you.”
20 When he had said this, he showed
them his hands and his side. The disciples
therefore were glad when they saw the
Lord.
21 Jesus therefore said to them again,
“Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me,
even so I send you.”
22 When he had said this, he breathed on
them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy
Spirit!
23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have
been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s
sins, they have been retained.”
24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called
Didymus,§ wasn’t with them when Jesus
came.
25 The other disciples therefore said to
him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them, “Unless I see in his
hands the print of the nails, put my finger
into the print of the nails, and put my hand
into his side, I will not believe.”
26 After eight days, again his disciples
were inside and Thomas was with them.
Jesus came, the doors being locked, and
stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to
you.”
27 Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here
your finger, and see my hands. Reach here
your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be
unbelieving, but believing.”
28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and
my God!”
29 Jesus said to him, “Because you have
seen me,† you have believed. Blessed are
those who have not seen and have believed.”
30 Therefore Jesus did many other signs
in the presence of his disciples, which are
not written in this book;
31 but these are written that you may
believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
God, and that believing you may have life
in his name.
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