1 Early Sunday morning,* while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.1
2 She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, "They have taken the Lord's body out of the tomb, and I don't know where they have put him!"
3 Peter and the other disciple ran to the tomb to see.
4 The other disciple outran Peter and got there first.
5 He stooped and looked in and saw the linen cloth lying there, but he didn't go in.
6 Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there,
7 while the cloth that had covered Jesus' head was folded up and lying to the side.
8 Then the other disciple also went in, and he saw and believed--
9 for until then they hadn't realized that the Scriptures said he would rise from the dead.
10 Then they went home.
11 Mary was standing outside the tomb crying, and as she wept, she stooped and looked in.
12 She saw two white-robed angels sitting at the head and foot of the place where the body of Jesus had been lying.
13 "Why are you crying?" the angels asked her. "Because they have taken away my Lord," she replied, "and I don't know where they have put him."
14 She glanced over her shoulder and saw someone standing behind her. It was Jesus, but she didn't recognize him.
15 "Why are you crying?" Jesus asked her. "Who are you looking for?" She thought he was the gardener. "Sir," she said, "if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him."
16 "Mary!" Jesus said. She turned toward him and exclaimed, "Teacher!"*2
17 "Don't cling to me," Jesus said, "for I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go find my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father, my God and your God."
18 Mary Magdalene found the disciples and told them, "I have seen the Lord!" Then she gave them his message.
