John 20:1–11

The Empty Tomb

20:1–8pp—Mt 28:1–8; Mk 16:1–8; Lk 24:1–10

20Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene^f went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.^{g 2}So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved,^h and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”ⁱ

³So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb.^{j 4}Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. ⁵He bent over and looked in^k at the strips of linen^l lying there but did not go in. ⁶Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, ⁷as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head.^m The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. ⁸Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first,ⁿ also went inside. He saw and believed. ⁹(They still did not understand from Scripture^o that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)^{p 10}Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

¹¹Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb^q