| After the Sabbath, as
Sunday morning was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look
at the tomb. Suddenly there was a violent earthquake; an angel of the Lord
came down from heaven, rolled the stone away, and sat on it. His
appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The
guards were so afraid that they trembled and became like dead men.
The angel spoke to the women. "You
must not be afraid," he said. "I know you are looking for Jesus,
who was crucified. He is not here; he has been raised, just as he said.
Come here and see the place where he was lying. Go quickly now, and tell
his disciples, 'He has been raised from death, and now he is going to
Galilee ahead of you; there you will see him!' Remember what I have told
you."
So they left the tomb in a hurry, afraid
and yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples.
Suddenly Jesus met them and said,
"Peace be with you." They came up to him, took hold of his feet,
and worshipped him. "Do not be afraid," Jesus said to them.
"Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see
me."
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After the Sabbath was
over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices
to go and anoint the body of Jesus. Very early on Sunday morning, at
sunrise, they went to the tomb. On the way they said to one another,
"Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the
tomb?" (It was a very large stone.) Then they looked up and saw that
the stone had already been rolled back. So they entered the tomb, where
they saw a young man sitting on the right, wearing a white robe - and they
were alarmed.
"Don't be alarmed," he said.
"I know you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He
is not here - he has been raised! Look, here is the place where they put
him. Now go and give this message to his disciples, including Peter: 'He
is going to Galilee ahead of you; there you will see him, just as he told
you.' "
So they went out and ran from the tomb,
distressed and terrified. They said nothing to anyone, because they were
afraid.
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Very
early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, carrying the spices
they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the entrance to
the tomb, so they went in; but they did not find the body of the Lord
Jesus. They stood there puzzled about this, when suddenly two men in
bright shining clothes stood by them. Full of fear, the women bowed down
to the ground, as the men said to them, "Why are you looking among
the dead for one who is alive? He is not here; he has been raised.
Remember what he said to you while he was in Galilee: 'The Son of Man must
be handed over to sinners, be crucified, and three days later rise to
life.' "
Then the women remembered his words, returned from the tomb, and told
all these things to the eleven disciples and all the rest. The women were
Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; they and the other
women with them told these things to the apostles. But the apostles
thought that what the women said was nonsense, and they did not believe
them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; he bent down and saw the linen
wrappings but nothing else. Then he went back home amazed at what had
happened.
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