Scripture for the Week of April 15th: John 20:1-18
Early on the first
day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and
saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the
other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have
taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid
him.” Then Peter and the other
disciple set out and went toward the tomb.
The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and
reached the tomb first. He bent down to
look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and
went into the tomb. He saw the linen
wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying
with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb
first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not
understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned to their homes. But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the
tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been
lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, “Woman, why are you
weeping?” She said to them,
“They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid
him.” When she had said this, she
turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was
Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman,
why are you weeping? Whom are you
looking for?” Supposing him to be
the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me
where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew,
“Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher).
Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet
ascended to the Father. But go to my
brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my
God and your God.’” Mary Magdalene
went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she
told them that he had said these things to her.