John 20:12-26

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.

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.”

¹⁴After 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.”

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

¹⁹In 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”;

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

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

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

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

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

²⁵so 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.”

²⁶A 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.”