1 On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early in the morning to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been moved away from the entrance. 2 So she ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus particularly loved, and said to them, “They’ve taken the Lord’s body from the tomb and we don’t know where they’ve put it!” 3 At that, Peter set off with the other disciple, and they made their way toward the tomb. 4 The two of them were running side by side, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 When this other disciple bent down to have a look inside, he saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he didn’t go in. 6 So Simon Peter, who had been following him, also arrived, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, 7 as well as the face-cloth, which had been around Jesus’ head, lying not with the linen wrappings, but by itself, folded up in a separate place. 8 So then, the other disciple, who had gotten to the tomb first, also went in; he saw and believed. 9 (They still didn’t understand the Scripture, you see; namely, that it was God’s plan for the Messiah to rise from the dead.)

10 The two disciples, therefore, went back to where they were staying. 11 Mary, meanwhile, was standing outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, then, she bent down and looked into the tomb, 12 and she saw two angels dressed in white sitting down where Jesus’ body had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. 13 “Dear woman, why are you weeping?” the angels asked her.

“Because they’ve taken away my Lord,” she replied, “and I don’t know where they have put him.”14 These things having said, she turned around and saw a man standing there; it was Jesus, but she didn’t realize it.

15 “Dear woman,” Jesus said to her, “why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?”

Mary, thinking that he was the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, please tell me where you’ve put him, and I will go and get him.”

16 “Mary,” Jesus said.

Turning to him, she said to him in Aramaic,+ “Rabbouni!” (which means “Teacher”).

17 “ˢYou mustn’t cling to me,” said Jesus, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to ascend to my Father and ᵖyour 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 what Jesus had said to her.

19 Now then, when it was evening on that same day, the first day of the week, with the doors of the place where the disciples had gathered having been locked, because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities, Jesus suddenly appeared in their midst. “Shalom to all of ᵖyou!” he said. 20 This having said, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples, then, were overcome with joy when they saw the Lord. 21 “Shalom to all of ᵖyou,” Jesus said to them again. “Just as the Father has sent me, so I am sending ᵖyou.” 22 And this having said, he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 Anyone whose sins ᵖyou pronounce forgiven, their sins will have been forgiven them; anyone whose sins ᵖyou pronounce unforgiven will not have been forgiven.”

24 Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, also called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples kept telling him, “We’ve seen the Lord!”

Thomas replied, “Unless I see in his hands the marks from the nails, and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand on the wound in his side, I will not believe.”

26 Eight days later his disciples were together inside again, and this time Thomas was with them. Even though the doors were locked, Jesus suddenly appeared in their midst. “Shalom to all of ᵖyou!” he said. 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and look at my hands, and reach out your hand and put it on my side. Stop doubting, and believe.”

28 “My Lord and my God!” replied Thomas.

29 Jesus said to him, “Is it because ˢyou have seen me that you believe? Blessed are those who believe without seeing me.”

30 Now then, although Jesus performed before the eyes of his disciples many other miraculous signs, which are not recorded in this book, 31 these things have themselves been included so that ᵖyou may trust and believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by doing so ᵖyou may share in life by the power of his name.