John 20:15-24

¹⁵“Why are you crying?” he asked her. “Who are you looking for?” Assuming he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you've taken him away, tell me where you've put him so I can go and get him.”

¹⁶Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned to him and said, “Rabboni,” which means “Teacher” in Hebrew.

¹⁷“Don't hold onto me,” Jesus said to her, “for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them I am ascending to my Father and your Father, my God and your God.”

¹⁸So Mary Magdalene went and told the disciples, “I've seen the Lord,” and she explained to them what he had said to her.

¹⁹That evening, on the first day of the week, as the disciples were meeting together behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “May you have peace.”

²⁰After this greeting he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were full of joy to see the Lord.

²¹“May you have peace!” Jesus told them again. “In the same way the Father sent me, so I'm sending you.”

²²Saying this, he breathed on them, and told them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

²³If you forgive anyone's sins, they are forgiven; if you hold them unforgiven, unforgiven they remain.”

²⁴One of the twelve disciples, Thomas, who was called the Twin, wasn't with them when Jesus came.