¹ On the first day of the week, early in the morning, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been removed.

² So she came running to Simon Peter, and to that other disciple who was Jesus’ friend, and said to them: “They have taken away the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him!”

³ So, Peter started off with that other disciple, and they went to the tomb.

⁴ The two began running together; but the other disciple ran faster than Peter, and reached the tomb first.

⁵ Stooping down, he saw the linen wrappings lying there, but did not go in.

⁶ Presently Simon Peter came following behind him, and went into the tomb; and he looked at the linen wrappings lying there,

⁷ and the cloth which had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the wrappings, but rolled up on one side, separately.

⁸ Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, went inside too, and he saw for himself and was convinced.

⁹ For they did not then understand the passage of scripture which says that Jesus must rise again from the dead.

¹⁰ The disciples then returned to their companions.

¹¹ Meanwhile Mary was standing close outside the tomb, weeping. Still weeping, she leant forward into the tomb,

¹² and perceived two angels clothed in white sitting there, where the body of Jesus had been lying, one where the head and the other where the feet had been.

¹³ “Why are you weeping?” asked the angels. “They have taken my Master away,” she answered, “and I do not know where they have laid him.”

¹⁴ After saying this, she turned around, and looked at Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

¹⁵ “Why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?”he asked. Supposing him to be the gardener, Mary answered: “If it was you, Sir, who carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away myself.”

¹⁶ “Mary!”said Jesus. She turned around, and exclaimed in Hebrew: “Rabboni!” (or, as we should say, ‘teacher’).

¹⁷ “Do not hold me,”Jesus said; “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers, and tell them that I am ascending to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God.”

¹⁸ Mary of Magdala went and told the disciples that she had seen the Master, and that he had said this to her.

¹⁹ In the evening of the same day — the first day of the week — after the doors of the room, in which the disciples were, had been shut because they were afraid of the religious authorities, Jesus came and stood among them and said: “Peace be with you”;

²⁰ after which he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy when they saw the Master.

²¹ Again Jesus said to them: “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me as his messenger, so I am sending you.”

²² After saying this, he breathed on them, and said: “Receive the Holy Spirit;

²³ if you remit anyone’s sins, they have been remitted; and, if you retain them, they have been retained.”

²⁴ But Thomas, one of the Twelve, called ‘The Twin,’ was not with them when Jesus came;

²⁵ so the rest of the disciples said to him: “We have seen the Master!” “Unless I see the marks of the nails in his hands,” he exclaimed, “and put my finger into the marks, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it.”

²⁶ A week later the disciples were again in the house, and Thomas with them. After the doors had been shut, Jesus came and stood among them, and said: “Peace be with you.”

²⁷ Then he said to Thomas: “Place your finger here, and look at my hands; and place your hand here, and put it into my side; and do not refuse to believe, but believe.”

²⁸ And Thomas exclaimed: “My Master, and my God!”

²⁹ “Is it because you have seen me that you have believed?”said Jesus. “Blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed!”

³⁰ There were many other signs of his mission that Jesus gave in presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book;

³¹ but these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God — and that, through your belief in his name, you may have life.