John 20

¹Now on the first of the Sabbaths, Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb early, it being still dark, and she sees the stone having been removed from the tomb.

²Therefore she runs and comes to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and she says to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they laid Him!”

³Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out and were coming to the tomb.

⁴And the two were running together, and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first.

⁵And having stooped down, he sees the linen cloths lying there, but he did not enter.

⁶Then Simon Peter also comes, following him, and he entered into the tomb and sees the linen cloths lying there,

⁷and the soudarion that was upon His head not lying with the linen cloths but having been folded up in a place by itself.

⁸So then the other disciple, the one having come to the tomb first, also entered; and he saw and believed.

⁹For not yet did they understand the Scripture, that it is necessary for Him to rise out from the dead.

¹⁰Therefore the disciples went away again to their own.

¹¹But Mary stood outside at the tomb weeping. Then as she was weeping, she stooped down into the tomb,

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

¹³And they say to her, “Woman, why do you weep?” She says to them, “Because they took away my Lord, and I do not know where they laid Him.”

¹⁴Having said these things, she turned back around, and she sees Jesus standing there, and she had not known that it is Jesus.

¹⁵Jesus says to her, “Woman, why do you weep? Whom do you seek?” Thinking that He is the gardener, she says to Him, “Sir, if you carried Him off, tell me where you laid Him, and I will take Him away.”

¹⁶Jesus says to her, “Mary.” Having turned around, she says to Him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which is to say “Teacher”).

¹⁷Jesus says to her, “Do not touch Me, for not yet have I ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’”

¹⁸Mary Magdalene comes, bringing word to the disciples: “I have seen the Lord,” and that He had said these things to her.

¹⁹Therefore, it being evening the same day, the first of the week, and the doors where the disciples were having been shut because of the fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and He says to them, “Peace to you.”

²⁰And having said this, He showed both His hands and His side to them. Then the disciples rejoiced, having seen the Lord.

²¹Therefore Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you. As the Father has sent Me forth, I also send you.”

²²And having said this, He breathed on them, and He says to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

²³If you might forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you might retain any, they are retained.”

²⁴But Thomas, one of the Twelve, the one called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.

²⁵Therefore the other disciples were saying to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the mark of the nails, and I put my finger into the mark of the nails, and I put my hands into His side, I will never believe.”

²⁶And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them, the doors having been shut. Jesus comes, and He stood in the midst and said, “Peace to you.”

²⁷Then He says to Thomas, “Bring your finger here and see My hands, and bring your hand and put it into My side; and be not unbelieving, but believing.”

²⁸Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”

²⁹Jesus says to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are those not having seen, and having believed.”

³⁰Therefore indeed Jesus also did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book.

³¹But these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, believing, you may have life in His name.