John 20:11–18

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

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

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

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

He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?^g 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.”

Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

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

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

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