20 1Early 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.
11But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over
to look 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, “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.
Reader: These are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is
the Messiah, the Son of God,
All: and that through believing, we may have life in his name.
(John 20:31)