Christ rises from the dead
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📚✭Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 📚Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord away from the tomb, and we✭ don’t know where they have put him”.3 📚✭Therefore Peter and that other disciple set out, going to the tomb. 4 📚So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and arrived at the tomb first. 5 📚And stooping down and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying there, but he did not go in. 6 📚✭Then Simon Peter, following him, arrived and went into the tomb, and saw the strips of linen lying there. 7 📚And he saw the cloth that had been around his head, not lying with the strips of linen, but rolled together in a place by itself. 8 📚Then that other disciple, who had first reached the tomb, also went in, and he saw and believed.
9 📚For they still did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
Christ appears to believers
10 📚Then the disciples went away again to their own homes.
11 📚✭But Mary stood outside at the tomb, weeping. And as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the tomb, 12 📚✭and saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and the other at the foot.
13 📚✭And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have put him”.
14 📚✭And when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus.
15 📚✭Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?” She, thinking he was the gardener✭, 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 around and said to him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher).
17 📚Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me,✭ for I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren✭ and tell them that I am ascending✭ to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God✭”.
18 📚✭Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
The appearance to His disciples
19 📚Then on the evening of the same day, it being the first day of the week, while the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear✭ of the Jews, Jesus came✭ and stood among them and said to them, “Peace✭ be with you”.
20 📚✭And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad, when they saw the Lord.
21 📚Then Jesus said to them again, “Peace be to you. As my Father has sent me, even so I send you”.✭
22 📚✭And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 📚✭The sins of everyone you forgive are forgiven them; the sins of anyone you do not forgive are held unforgiven”.
The appearance to Thomas with the others
24 📚But Thomas called Didymos, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 📚✭So the other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord”. But he said to them, “Unless I see the print of the nails in his hands, and put my finger into the nail prints, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe”.
26 📚✭And after eight days his disciples were again inside, and Thomas was with them. The doors were locked but Jesus came and stood among them, and said, “Peace be to you”.
27 📚✭Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands, and reach your hand here and put it into my side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing”.
28 📚✭And Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God”.
29 📚✭Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed✭ are those who have not seen and yet have believed”.