1The next day was Saturday. It was their special rest day. When the sun went down, that special rest day was finished. Then Mary Magdalene, Salome and Mary the mother of James bought some perfume to put on Jesus’s body, so they could bury him the right way.
2On Sunday morning when the sun was just starting to come up they went to that cave to find Jesus’s body.
3As they walked along they said to each other, “Who will roll away that big rock to open up the cave for us? It’s way too big for us.”
4But when the women got there they looked up and saw that rock wasn’t blocking the cave any more. Somebody already came before them and rolled that rock away.
5So they walked into the cave and saw a young man sitting there on the right-hand side, wearing really white clothes. They got a big surprise.
6He said to them, “Don’t be frightened. You are looking for the body of Jesus, the man from Nazareth that they killed on a cross. God made him alive again. He isn’t here. Look, see this place just here. They put his body here, but it isn’t here now.”
7And he said to them, “Go back to his followers and tell them, ‘You mob have to go back to Galilee. Jesus will go ahead of you mob to that country, and when you go back there you will see him. You remember, he told you about that some time ago.’ Make sure you tell this message to Peter too.”
8The women didn’t know what to think. They were so frightened they were shaking. They came out of that cave and ran away. Those women were too frightened to talk to anybody. They just ran away.
9Jesus came alive again early on Sunday morning. At first he let Mary Magdalene see him. (A long time before this, Jesus forced 7 bad spirits out of her.)
10After Mary saw Jesus she went to his friends, the people that used to walk around with him. When she got there, they were all very sad and crying.
11Mary told them, “Jesus is alive again. I have just seen him.” But they didn’t believe her.
12A little while after that 2 of the other followers of Jesus were walking from Jerusalem to another place out in the bush. Jesus came to them and let them see him, but he made himself look like a different person, so at first they didn’t know it was him.
13Then, after they found out it was him, straight away they went back to Jerusalem and they told the other followers of Jesus that they saw him. But those others didn’t believe them.
14After that, the 11 close followers of Jesus were eating food and Jesus came to them, and he let them see him alive. He growled at them and said, “Why didn’t you listen to those that said they saw me? What they said was true, but you didn’t believe them.”
15After that Jesus said to his followers, “You have to go out to everywhere in the world and tell everybody the good news about me.
16Some people will believe your message. You have to take them through that special washing ceremony and baptise them with water, and God will save them. But God will not save people that don’t believe that message. He will blame them and say they are guilty.
17And the people that believe in me will do great things to show they are God’s people. They will use my power to do these things, like they will force bad spirits out of people, they will talk in different languages that they never learned,
18and if they pick up a cheeky snake, it will not hurt them, and if they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them, and they will put their hands on sick people, and God will make those sick people better.”
19After Jesus finished telling his followers all these things, God took him up to heaven. And Jesus sat down at the right side of God, the place where only a really important person can sit.
20After that his followers went everywhere and told everyone the good news about Jesus. And our leader, Jesus himself, worked with them. He gave them power to do great things so that everyone knew that he was with them, and that their message was true. Then those women went to Peter and his friends and quickly told them what happened. After that Jesus came to them and sent his followers out everywhere, toward the sunrise and toward the way the sun goes down. They told people everywhere the good message about Jesus, that he can save them so that they will never die but will keep on living for ever. That message is really dear, and it always works. It is never wrong.
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