| 1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still
dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw
that the stone had been removed from the
entrance.
2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other
disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, \"They
have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don\'t
know where they have put him!\"
3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the
tomb.
4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran
Peter and reached the tomb first.
5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen
lying there but did not go in.
6 Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived
and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen
lying there,
7 as well as the burial cloth that had been around
Jesus\' head. The cloth was folded up by itself,
separate from the linen.
8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the
tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed.
9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that
Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
10 Then the disciples went back to their homes,
11 but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she
wept, she bent over to look into the tomb
12 and saw two angels in white, seated where
Jesus\' body had been, one at the head and the
other at the foot.
13 They asked her, \"Woman, why are you crying?\"
14 \"They have taken my Lord away,\" she said, \"and
I don\'t know where they have put him.\" At this, she
turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but
she did not realize that it was Jesus.
15 \"Woman,\" he said, \"why are you crying? Who is it
you are looking for?\" Thinking he was the gardener,
she said, \"Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me
where you have put him, and I will get him.\"
16 Jesus said to her, \"Mary.\" She turned toward him
and cried out in Aramaic, \"Rabboni!\" (which means
Teacher).
17 Jesus said, \"Do not hold on to me, for I have not
yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my
brothers and tell them, \'I am returning to my Father
and your Father, to my God and your God.\' \"
18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the
news: \"I have seen the Lord!\" And she told them
that he had said these things to her.
19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when
the disciples were together, with the doors locked
for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among
them and said, \"Peace be with you!\"
20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and
side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw
the Lord.
21 Again Jesus said, \"Peace be with you! As the
Father has sent me, I am sending you.\"
22 And with that he breathed on them and said,
\"Receive the Holy Spirit.
23 If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if
you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.\"
24 Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve,
was not with the disciples when Jesus came.
25 So the other disciples told him, \"We have seen the
Lord!\" But he said to them, \"Unless I see the nail
marks in his hands and put my finger where the
nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not
believe it.\"
26 A week later his disciples were in the house
again, and Thomas was with them. Though the
doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among
them and said, \"Peace be with you!\"
27 Then he said to Thomas, \"Put your finger here;
see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into
my side. Stop doubting and believe.\"
28 Thomas said to him, \"My Lord and my God!\"
29 Then Jesus told him, \"Because you have seen
me, you have believed; blessed are those who
have not seen and yet have believed.\"
30 Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the
presence of his disciples, which are not recorded
in this book.
31 But these are written that you may believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by
believing you may have life in his name.
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