1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
2 So she ran off to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and told them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him!"
3 So Peter and the other disciple set out and made their way to the tomb.
4 The two of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
5 Bending down, he saw the strips of linen lying there, but he did not go in.
6 Then Simon Peter, who had been following him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there,
7 and the cloth that had been around his head, not lying with the linen strips but rolled up in a place by itself.
8 Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, went in as well; he saw, and he believed.
9 For they did not yet understand the Scripture, that he had to rise from the dead.
10 So the disciples went back to their homes.
11 Mary, though, stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent down to look into the tomb,
12 and she saw two angels in white seated where Jesus' body had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet.
13 They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She told them, "They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him."
14 After saying this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.
15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who is it you are looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him off, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."
16 Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher).
17 Jesus told her, "Stop clinging to me, for I have not yet gone up to my Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had told her these things.
19 On the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, the doors of the place where the disciples had gathered were locked for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace to you."
20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
21 Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you. Just as the Father has sent me, so I am sending you."
22 And after saying this, he breathed on them and told them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
23 Whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven them; whose sins you retain, they are retained."
24 Thomas, one of the twelve, the one called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
25 The other disciples kept telling him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he told them, "Unless I see the marks of the nails in his hands, put my finger into the marks of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe."
26 Eight days later his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace to you."
27 Then he said to Thomas, "Bring your finger here and look at my hands; bring your hand and put it into my side. Stop being unbelieving, and believe."
28 Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"
29 Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, Thomas, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
30 Jesus performed many other signs in front of his disciples that are not written in this book.
31 But these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.