John 20

1 But on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene comes early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and sees the stone taken away from the tomb. [a] 2 So she runs and comes to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and says to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” [b]

3 So Peter went out, and the other disciple, and they were going to the tomb. 4 And the two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came first to the tomb, 5 and stooping down he sees the linen strips lying there; he did not, however, go in. 6 So Simon Peter also comes, following him, and he went into the tomb; and he looks at the linen strips lying there, 7 and the face cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen strips but rolled up in a place by itself. [c] 8 So then the other disciple also went in, the one who had come first to the tomb, and he saw and trusted; 9 for they did not yet know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. [d] 10 So the disciples went away again to themselves.

11 But Mary stood outside at the tomb, weeping. So as she wept she stooped down into the tomb, 12 and she looks at two messengers in white, seated one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. [e] 13 And they say to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She says to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” 14 Having said this she turned around, and she looks at Jesus standing there; and she did not know that it is Jesus.

15 Jesus says to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Thinking that he is the gardener, she says to him, “Sir, if you carried him off, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him away.” 16 Jesus says to her, “Mary.” Turning, she says to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” — which means Teacher. [f] 17 Jesus says to her, “Do not touch me, for I have not yet gone up to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am going up to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.’” [g] 18 Mary Magdalene comes announcing to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord” — and that he had said these things to her.

19 So when it was evening on that day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut where the disciples were because of the fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle and says to them, “Peace to you.” 20 And having said this he showed them his hands and his side. So the disciples rejoiced at seeing the Lord. 21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you.” 22 And having said this he breathed on them and says to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. [h] 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them; if you hold anyone’s, they have been held.” [i]

24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, the one called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. [j] 25 So the other disciples were saying to him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will never trust.”

26 And after eight days his disciples were inside again, and Thomas with them. Jesus comes, the doors having been shut, and stood in the middle and said, “Peace to you.” 27 Then he says to Thomas, “Bring your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be faithless but faithful.” 28 Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God.” 29 Jesus says to him, “Because you have seen me, you have trusted? Blessed are those who did not see and yet trusted.”

30 So Jesus did many other signs also in front of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written so that you may trust that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that trusting you may have life in his name. [k] †