The empty tomb
- Now, on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene goes to the tomb early, with it still being dark, and she sees that the stone has been removed from the tomb.
- So she runs and comes to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and she tells them: “They took the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t *know where they put Him.”
- So Peter and the other disciple went out and were going to the tomb.
- And the two were running together, and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first.
- And having stooped down, he sees the linen wrappings lying there, yet he didn’t enter.
- So Simon Peter also comes following him, and he entered into the tomb and observes the linen wrappings lying there,
- and the head cloth (which was on His head) not lying with the linen wrappings, but *folded separately in another place.
- So the other disciple – the one who came to the tomb first – then also entered and saw and believed,
- for they hadn’t yet understood the scripture, that it’s necessary for Him to rise from the dead.
- So the disciples departed again to their own homes.
- But Mary had stood at the tomb, weeping outside. So as she was weeping, she stooped down into the tomb,
- and she sees two angels in white sitting – one at the head and one at the feet – where the body of Jesus had been lying.
- And those angels say to her: “Woman, why are you weeping?” She tells them: “Because they took my Lord, and I don’t *know where they put Him.”
- Having said these things, she turned back around and sees Jesus *standing there, and she hadn’t known that it’s Jesus.
- Jesus says to her: “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Thinking that He’s the gardener, she tells Him: “Sir, if you carried Him away, tell me where you put Him and I will take Him away.”
- Jesus says to her: “Mary.” Having turned, that woman says to Him in Hebrew: “Rabboni?” (which means: “teacher”)
- Jesus tells her: “Don’t cling to Me, for I haven’t yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them: ‘I’m ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God’.”
- Mary Magdalene goes to the disciples, announcing that “I have seen the Lord!” and those things He told her.
Jesus appears to the disciples
- So it being evening that same day (the first of the week) and the doors having been *shut where the disciples were because of the fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst. And He tells them: “Peace be with you.”
- And having said this, He showed both His hands and His side to them. So having seen the Lord, the disciples rejoiced.
- So Jesus told them again: “Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent Me out, I also send you.”
- And having said this, He breathed on them and tells them: “Receive the Holy Spirit.
- “If you forgive someone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain someone’s sins, they have been retained.”
- But Thomas (one of the twelve, the man called “Didymus”) wasn’t with them when Jesus came.
- So the other disciples were telling him: “We have seen the Lord!” But he told them: “Unless I see the mark of the nails in His hands, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I definitely won’t believe.”
- And after eight days, His disciples were inside again and Thomas was with them. Jesus comes despite the *shut doors, and He stood in their midst and said: “Peace be with you.”
- Next He tells Thomas: “Bring your finger here and see My hands, and bring your hand and put it into My side; and don’t be unbelieving, but believing.
- Thomas answered and said to Him: “My Lord and my God.”
- Jesus tells him: “You have believed because you have seen Me; blessed are the men who didn’t see and yet believed.”
- So indeed, Jesus also did many other signs in His disciples’ presence which haven’t been written in this book.
- But these have been written so you might believe that Jesus is the Anointed, the Son of God, and that by believing you might have life in His name.