¹¹Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb^q ¹²and saw two angels in white,^r seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

¹³They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”^s

“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.”^t ¹⁴At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there,^u but she did not realize that it was Jesus.^v

¹⁵He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?^w Who is it you are looking for?”

Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”

¹⁶Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic,^x “Rabboni!”^y (which means “Teacher”).

¹⁷Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers^z and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father^a and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

¹⁸Mary Magdalene^b went to the disciples^c with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.

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John 20:18: Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”—and that he had said these things to her.

Cross references

qver 5
r Mt 28:2, 3; Mk 16:5; Lk 24:4; Ac 1:10; See 5:19; 10:30
sver 15
tver 2
u Mk 16:9
v Lk 24:16; Jn 21:4
wver 13
xSee Jn 5:2
ySee Mt 23:7
zSee Mt 28:10
a Jn 7:33
bSee ver 1
c Lk 24:10, 22, 23