- The Empty Tomb
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- 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.
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- 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!"
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- So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb.
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- Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
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- He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in.
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- Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb.
- He saw the strips of linen lying there,
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- as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head.
- The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen.
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- Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first,
- also went inside. He saw and believed.
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- (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
- Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
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- Then the disciples went back to their homes,
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- but Mary stood outside the tomb crying.
- As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb
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- and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been,
- one at the head and the other at the foot.
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- They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?" "They have taken my Lord away,"
- she said, "and I don't know where they have put him."
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- At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there,
- but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
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- "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."
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- Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic,
- "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher).
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- 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.'"
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- 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.
- Jesus Apears to His Disciples
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- 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!"
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- After he said this, he showed them his hands and side.
- The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.
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- Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you!
- As the Father has sent me, I am sending you."
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- And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
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- If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven;
- if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."
- Jesus Appears to Thomas
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- Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve,
- was not with the disciples when Jesus came.
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- 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."
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- 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!"
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- 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."
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- Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"
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- Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed;
- blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
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- Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples,
- which are not recorded in this book.
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- 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.