John 20:1-11

The Empty Tomb

¹Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene *came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and *saw the stone already removed from the tomb. ²So she *ran and *came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and *said to them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we do not know where they have put Him.” ³So Peter and the other disciple left, and they were going to the tomb. ⁴The two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead, faster than Peter, and came to the tomb first; ⁵and he stooped to look in, and *saw the linen wrappings lying there; however he did not go in. ⁶So Simon Peter also *came, following him, and he entered the tomb; and he *looked at the linen wrappings lying there, ⁷and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings but folded up in a place by itself. ⁸So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb also entered then, and he saw and believed. ⁹For they did not yet understand the Scripture, that He must rise from the dead. ¹⁰So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

¹¹But Mary was standing outside the tomb, weeping; so as she wept, she stooped to look into the tomb;

Jesus among His Disciples

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