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20:1-18 Now on the first day of the week Mary the Magdalene comes to the tomb while it was still
dark. She sees the stone has
been taken out of the tomb (entrance).
She therefore runs (away) and comes to Simon Peter and to the other
disciple especially loved by Jesus and says to them: "They took the
Lord out of the tomb and we do not know where they put him." Peter and the other disciple
therefore went out (of the house) and came to the tomb. The two had run together but the
other disciple had run more quickly than Peter and reached the tomb
first. Stooping down he saw the
sheets (that had been wrapped around the body) but he did not enter. Then Simon Peter arrived following
him and went into the tomb. He
saw the sheets lying and there and the kerchief which had been on his
(Jesus') head. This was not
lying with the sheets but was apart and had been folded up by itself. When
therefore the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, went into it
he saw the things there and believed.
As yet they did not know that the Scripture says that it behoves him
(the Christ) to rise again from the dead. The disciples therefore went away
again back to their
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house. But Mary stood outside the tomb
weeping. As she was weeping she
stooped into the tomb and saw two angels sitting there dressed in white. One was at the head and the other at
the feet of where the body of Jesus had lain. These (angels) say to her
"Woman why are you weeping."
She says to them "They took my Lord and I do not know where
they put him." In saying
these things she turned to look behind her and she saw Jesus standing
(there). She did not know that
it was Jesus. Jesus says to her
"Woman why are you weeping?
Who are you looking for?"
That one (Mary Magdalene) thinking that it was the gardener says to him "Sir,
if you carried him (away), tell me where you put him and I will take
him." Jesus says to her
"Mary". Turning
around that one says to him in Hebrew "Rabboni" which means
Teacher. Jesus says to her
"Do not touch me for I have yet to ascend to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them "I am ascending to my Father and to your
Father and to my God and to your God." Mary the Magdalene therefore comes
to the disciples announcing "I have seen the Lord." And she told
them what he (Jesus)
had said to her.
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