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20:1-18 Now on
the first day of the week Mary the
Magdalene comes to the tomb while it was still dark. She sees the stone has been taken
out of the tomb (entrance). She
therefore runs (away) and comes to Simon Peter and to the other disciple especially
loved by Jesus and says to them: "They took the Lord out of the tomb
and we do not know where they put him." Peter and the other disciple
therefore went out (of the house) and came to the tomb. The two had run together but the
other disciple had run more quickly than Peter and reached the tomb
first. Stooping down he saw the
sheets (that had been wrapped around the body) but he did not enter. Then Simon Peter arrived following
him and went into the tomb. He
saw the sheets lying and there and the kerchief which had been on his
(Jesus') head. This was not
lying with the sheets but was apart and had been folded up by itself. When
therefore the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, went into it
he saw the things there and believed.
As yet they did not know that the Scripture says that it behoves him
(the Christ) to rise again from the dead. The disciples therefore went away
again back to their
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house. But Mary stood outside the tomb
weeping. As she was weeping she
stooped into the tomb and saw two angels sitting there dressed in
white. One was at the head and
the other at the feet of where the body of Jesus had lain. These (angels) say to her "Woman
why are you weeping." She
says to them "They took my Lord and I do not know where they put
him." In saying these
things she turned to look behind her and she saw Jesus standing
(there). She did not know that
it was Jesus. Jesus says to her
"Woman why are you weeping?
Who are you looking for?"
That one (Mary Magdalene) thinking that it was the gardener says to
him "Sir, if you carried
him (away), tell me where you put him and I will take him." Jesus says to her "Mary". Turning around that one says to him
in Hebrew "Rabboni" which means Teacher. Jesus says to her "Do not touch
me for I have yet to ascend to the Father. But go
to my brothers and tell them
"I am ascending to my Father and to your Father and to my God and to
your God." Mary the
Magdalene therefore comes to the disciples announcing "I have seen the
Lord." And she told them what he (Jesus) had said to her.
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