John 20:1-12

¹On 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.

²So 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!”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁰The disciples then returned to their companions.

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

¹²and 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.