The Bible

John Chapter 20

¹Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

²So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have laid him!" ³So Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.

⁴They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.

⁵Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn't enter in.

⁶Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying, ⁷and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.

⁸So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.

⁹For as yet they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

¹⁰So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

¹¹But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as she wept she stooped and looked into the tomb, ¹²and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

¹³They asked her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have laid him." ¹⁴When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn't know that it was Jesus.

¹⁵Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." ¹⁶Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him, "Rabboni!" which is to say, "Teacher!" ¹⁷Jesus said to her, "Don't hold me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" ¹⁸Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.

¹⁹So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, "Peace be to you." ²⁰When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Therefore the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.

²¹So Jesus said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." ²²When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit!

²³If you forgive anyone's sins, they have been forgiven. If you retain anyone's sins, they have been retained." ²⁴But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn't with them when Jesus came.

²⁵So the other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe." ²⁶After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood in the middle and said, "Peace be to you." ²⁷Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don't be unbelieving, but believing." ²⁸Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" ²⁹Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed." ³⁰So Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book; ³¹but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the AnointedOne, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.