SCRIPTURE
John 20: 1-18
1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene
came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple,
the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out
of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him."
3 Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward
the tomb. 4 The two were
running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb
first. 5 He bent down to
look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in.
6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the
tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there,
7 and the cloth that had been on Jesus' head, not lying with
the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.
8 Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also
went in, and he saw and believed; 9
for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the
dead. 10 Then the
disciples returned to their homes. 11
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look1
into the tomb; 12
and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying,
one at the head and the other at the feet.
13 They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?"
She said to them, "They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where
they have laid him." 14
When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she
did not know that it was Jesus. 15
Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking
for?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she 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 in Hebrew,1 "Rabbouni!"
(which means Teacher). 17
Jesus said to her, "Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended
to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my
Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I
have seen the Lord"; and she told them that he had said these things to
her.