The Resurrection (The Empty Tomb)
1Early on Sunday morning, as the new day was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to visit the tomb.
2Suddenly there was a great earthquake! For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven, rolled aside the stone, and sat on it.
3His face shone like lightning, and his clothing was as white as snow.
4The guards shook with fear when they saw him, and they fell into a dead faint.
5Then the angel spoke to the women. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.
6He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying.
7And now, go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and he is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there. Remember what I have told you.”
8The women ran quickly from the tomb. They were very frightened but also filled with great joy, and they rushed to give the disciples the angel’s message.
9And as they went, Jesus met them and greeted them. And they ran to him, grasped his feet, and worshiped him.
10Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid! Go tell my brothers to leave for Galilee, and they will see me there.”
1Saturday evening, when the Sabbath ended, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome went out and purchased burial spices so they could anoint Jesus’ body.
2Very early on Sunday morning, just at sunrise, they went to the tomb.
3On the way they were asking each other, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”
4But as they arrived, they looked up and saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled aside.
5When they entered the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in a white robe sitting on the right side. The women were shocked,
6but the angel said, “Don’t be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Look, this is where they laid his body.
7Now go and tell his disciples, including Peter, that Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there, just as he told you before he died.”
8The women fled from the tomb, trembling and bewildered, and they said nothing to anyone because they were too frightened. Then they briefly reported all this to Peter and his companions. Afterward Jesus himself sent them out from east to west with the sacred and unfailing message of salvation that gives eternal life. Amen.
1But very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.
2They found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.
3So they went in, but they didn’t find the body of the Lord Jesus.
4As they stood there puzzled, two men suddenly appeared to them, clothed in dazzling robes.
5The women were terrified and bowed with their faces to the ground. Then the men asked, “Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive?
6He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee,
7that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the third day.”
8Then they remembered that he had said this.
9So they rushed back from the tomb to tell his eleven disciples—and everyone else—what had happened.
10It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and several other women who told the apostles what had happened.
11But the story sounded like nonsense to the men, so they didn’t believe it.
12However, Peter jumped up and ran to the tomb to look. Stooping, he peered in and saw the empty linen wrappings; then he went home again, wondering what had happened.
1Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.
2She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
3Peter and the other disciple started out for the tomb.
4They were both running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
5He stooped and looked in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he didn’t go in.
6Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there,
7while the cloth that had covered Jesus’ head was folded up and lying apart from the other wrappings.
8Then the disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed—
9for until then they still hadn’t understood the Scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead.
10Then they went home.
11Mary was standing outside the tomb crying, and as she wept, she stooped and looked in.
12She saw two white-robed angels, one sitting at the head and the other at the foot of the place where the body of Jesus had been lying.
13“Dear woman, why are you crying?” the angels asked her. “Because they have taken away my Lord,” she replied, “and I don’t know where they have put him.”