20:1 Now on
the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early,
while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from
the tomb. 20:2 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!"
20:3 Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they
went toward the tomb. 20:4 They both ran together. The other disciple
outran Peter, and came to the tomb first. 20:5 Stooping and looking
in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn't enter in. 20:6 Then
Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the
linen cloths lying, 20:7 and the cloth that had been on his head, not
lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. 20:8
So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in,
and he saw and believed. 20:9 For as yet they didn't know the
Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 20:10 So the disciples
went away again to their own homes.
20:11 But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as
she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb, 20:12 and she saw two
angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where
the body of Jesus had lain. 20:13 They told 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." 20:14 When she had said this, she
turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn't know that it was Jesus.
20:15 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."
20:16 Jesus said to her, "Mary."
She turned and said to him, "Rabboni!" which is to say,
"Teacher!"
20:17 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.'"
20:18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen
the Lord, and that he had said these things to her. 20:19 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 midst, and said to them,
"Peace be to you."
20:20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his
side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord. 20:21
Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to
you. As the Father has
sent me, even so I send you." 20:22 When he had said this, he
breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the
Holy Spirit! 20:23
Whoever's sins you forgive, they are forgiven them. Whoever's sins you
retain, they have been retained."
20:24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn't with
them when Jesus came. 20:25 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, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
20:26 After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas
was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the
midst, and said, "Peace be to you." 20:27
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."
20:28 Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"
20:29 Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me,
you have
believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."
20:30 Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his
disciples, which are not written in this book; 20:31 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.
