John 20 :: New International Version (NIV)

The Empty Tomb

(Mat 28:1–10; Mar 16:1–8; Luk 24:1–12 )

Jhn 20:1Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.

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Jhn 20:2So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

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Jhn 20:3So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb.

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Jhn 20:4Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.

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Jhn 20:5He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in.

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Jhn 20:6Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there,

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Jhn 20:7as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen.

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Jhn 20:8Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed.

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Jhn 20:9(They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)

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Jhn 20:10Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

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Jhn 20:11Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb

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Jhn 20:12and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

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Jhn 20:13They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.”

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Jhn 20:14At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

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Jhn 20:15He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? 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.”

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Jhn 20:16Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).

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Jhn 20:17Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

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Jhn 20:18Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.

Jesus Appears to His Disciples

(Luk 24:36–43; 1Co 15:5 )

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Jhn 20:19On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”

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Jhn 20:20After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

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Jhn 20:21Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”

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Jhn 20:22And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

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Jhn 20:23If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”

Jesus Appears to Thomas

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Jhn 20:24Now Thomas (also known as Didymus[fn]), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.

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Jhn 20:25So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

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Jhn 20:26A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”

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Jhn 20:27Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”

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Jhn 20:28Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”

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Jhn 20:29Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

The Purpose of John’s Gospel

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Jhn 20:30Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.

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Jhn 20:31But these are written that you may believe[fn] that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

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NIV Footnotes

(20:24)

Thomas (Aramaic) and Didymus (Greek) both mean twin.

(20:31)

Or may continue to believe

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