John 20

1On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb in the early morning when it was still dark, and she saw the stone lifted away from the tomb.

2So she came running to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him!”

3So Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb.

4The two were running side by side, but the other disciple ran ahead, faster than Peter, and arrived at the tomb first.

5He leaned in and saw the linen strips lying there, yet he did not enter.

6Simon Peter then arrived, coming after him, and he entered the tomb and saw the linen strips lying there,

7and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen strips but rolled up separately in one place.

8Then the other disciple, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, went in too, and he saw and believed.

9For up to that time they had not understood the Scripture, that he had to rise from the dead.

10So the disciples went back home.

11Mary, though, was standing outside by the tomb, weeping. While she wept, she leaned down to look into the tomb,

12and she saw two angels dressed in white seated there, one at the head and one at the feet of the place where the body of Jesus had been lying.

13They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She told them, “Because they have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him.”

14After saying this, she turned to look behind her and saw Jesus standing there, though she did not know it was Jesus.

15Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you searching for?” She thought he was the gardener, so she said to him, “Sir, if you are the one who carried him off, tell me where you put him, and I will take him away myself.”

16Jesus said to her, “Mary.” Turning toward him, she said in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (meaning Teacher).

17Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me, because I have not yet gone up to the Father. Go to my brothers instead and tell them, ‘I am going up to my Father and your Father, my God and your God.’”

18Mary Magdalene came to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them what he had said to her.

19When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, the doors of the place where the disciples were had been locked out of fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

20Having said this, he showed them his hands and his side, and the disciples rejoiced at seeing the Lord.

21So Jesus said to them once more, “Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you.”

22After saying this, he breathed on them and told them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

23If you forgive anyone’s sins, those sins have been forgiven them; if you hold on to anyone’s sins, they have been held on to.”

24But Thomas, who was called the Twin and was one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.

25The other disciples kept telling him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he told them, “Unless I see the imprint of the nails in his hands, and push my finger into the imprint of the nails, and push my hand into his side, there is no way I will believe.”

26After eight days his disciples were indoors again, with Thomas among them. The doors were locked, but Jesus came and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.”

27Then he told Thomas, “Bring your finger here and look at my hands. Bring your hand and push it into my side. Do not be without faith; be one who believes.”

28Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

29Jesus said to him, “Is it because you have seen me that you have believed? Blessed are those who have believed without seeing.”

30Jesus also did many other signs in front of his disciples that have not been written down in this book.

31These, however, have been written down so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that as you believe, you may have life in his name.