John 20

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

So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, to whom Jesus was a friend, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”

So Peter went out, and the other disciple, and they were going to the tomb.

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

and stooping down and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he did not enter in.

Then Simon Peter also came, following him, and went into the tomb, and he saw the linen cloths lying,

and the handkerchief that was on his head not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.

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

For they did not yet know the Scripture, that he must rise from among the dead.

So the disciples went away again to their own home.

But Mary was standing outside the tomb crying. Then as she was crying, she stooped down and looked into the tomb

and she saw two angels in white, sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying.

And they said to her, “Woman, why are you crying?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put him.”

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but did not know that it was Jesus.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?” She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Lord, if you have carried him from here, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned herself, and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which means, Teacher).

Jesus said to her, “Do not touch me, because I have not yet gone up to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am going up to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.’”

Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and also that he had said these things to her.

Now when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were because of their fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. So the disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

Then Jesus said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive holy spirit.

If you forgive the sins of anyone, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of anyone, they have been retained.”

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

Therefore the other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not ever believe.”

And eight days later his disciples were inside again, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst of them and said, “Peace be to you.”

Then he said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and see my hands, and reach your hand here, and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believing!”

Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my god.”

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed.”

(Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples that are not written in this book,

but these are written so that you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that by believing you will have life in his name).