John 20:1-18 ▼

1 AND on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalen came very early, whilst yet some darkness remained, to the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

2 She therefore runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.

3 Then Peter went out, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.

4 And they two ran together: and the other disciple ran before more swiftly than Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.

5 And stooping forward, he sees the swathing clothes lying there; yet he did not go in.

6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and saw the swathing clothes lying,

7 and the napkin, which had been round his head, not laid with the linen swathes, but apart folded up in another place.

8 Then went in also the other disciple, who had come the first to the sepulchre, and saw, and believed.

9 Though not even yet had they known the scripture, that he should rise from the dead.

10 Then the disciples went back again to their companions.

11 But Mary stood at the sepulchre, without, weeping: as therefore she wept, she bent forward towards the sepulchre.

12 And saw two angels in white, sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.

14 And as she thus spoke, she turned about, and beheld Jesus standing by, and knew not that it was Jesus.

15 Then Jesus said to her, Woman, why art thou weeping? whom art thou seeking? She, supposing that it was the gardener, said to him, Sir, if thou hast carried him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.

16 Jesus saith to her, Mary! Starting round, she said to him, Rabboni! that is, Master!

17 Jesus saith to her, Touch me not; for I have not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and tell them, I am ascending to my Father, and your Father; to my God, and your God.

18 Mary Magdalen cometh declaring to the disciples, that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things to her.