20:1  Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it appeared dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb.

20:2  So 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 do not know where they have laid Him."

20:3  So Peter and the other disciple went forth, and they went to the tomb.

20:4  The two ran together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first;

20:5  and stooping and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in.

20:6  And so Simon Peter also came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he saw the linen wrappings lying there,

20:7  and the face-cloth which had lain on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself.

20:8  So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed.

20:9  For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.

20:10  So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

20:11  But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb;

20:12  and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had reclined.

20:13  And they said to her, "Woman, why do you weep?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him."

20:14  When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that Jesus had stood there.

20:15  Jesus said to her, "Woman, why do you weep? Whom do you seek?" Supposing Him the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away."

20:16  Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, "Rabboni!" (which means, Teacher).

20:17  Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, 'I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'"

20:18  Mary Magdalene came, announcing to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and that He had said these things to her.

20:19  So when evening had arrived on that day, the first day of the week, and when the disciples had shut the doors for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "May you have Peace."

20:20  And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

20:21  So Jesus said to them again, "May you have Peace ; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you."

20:22  And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

20:23  "If you forgive the sins of any, they have received forgiveness for their sins; if you retain the sins of any, they have retained them."

20:24  But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, had not joined them when Jesus came.

20:25  So the other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe."

20:26  After eight days His disciples had shut themselves inside again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, moving through the closed doors, and stood in their midst and said, "May you have peace."

20:27  Then He said to Thomas, "Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not have unbelief, but belief."

20:28  Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"

20:29  Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed? They receive blessings who do not see but still believe."

20:30  Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which I have not written in this book;

20:31  but these I have written so that you may believe that Jesus constitutes the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.