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From The Living Bible

We continue our reading from the living Bible and the Gospel of John

John chapter 20

Early Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone was rolled aside from the entrance.

She ran and found Simon Peter and me and said, “they have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and I don’t know where they have put him!”

We ran to the tomb to see; I outran Peter and got there first, and stooped and looked in and saw the linen cloth lying there, but I didn’t go in. Then Simon Peter arrived and went on inside. He also noticed the cloth lying there, while the bandage that covered Jesus had was rolled up in a bundle and was lying at the side. Then I went into, and saw, and believed that he had risen — for until then we hadn’t realized that the Scriptures said he would come to life again.

We went on home, and by that time Mary had returned to the tomb and was standing outside crying. And as she wept, she’s due in looked in, and saw two white robed angels sitting at the head and foot of the place where the body of Jesus had been lying.

“Why are you crying?” The angels asked her.

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“Because they have taken away my Lord,” she replied, “and I don’t know where they have put him.”

She glanced over her shoulder and saw someone standing behind her. It was Jesus, but she didn’t recognize him.

“Why are you crying?” He asked her. “Whom are you looking for?” She thought he was the gardener.

“Sir,” she said, “if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him and I will go and get him.”

“Mary!” Jesus said. She turned towards him.

“Master!” She exclaimed.

“Don’t touch me,” he cautioned, “for I haven’t yet ascended to the father. Go find my brothers and tell them that I have ascened to my father and your father, my God and your God.”

Mary Magdalene found the disciples and told them, “I have seen the Lord!” Then she gave them this message.

That evening the disciples were meeting behind locked doors, and fear of the Jewish leaders, when suddenly Jesus was standing there among them. After greeting them, he showed them his hands and sighed. And how wonderful was their joy as they saw their Lord summation Mark

He spoke to them again and said, “as the father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” Then he breathed on them and told them, “receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven. If you refuse to forgive them, they are unforgiven.”

One of the disciples, Thomas, “the twin,” was not there at that time with the others. When they kept telling him, “we have seen the Lord,” he replied, “I won’t believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands — and put my fingers into them — and place my hand inside his side.”

8 days later the disciples were together again, and this time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked; but suddenly, as before Jesus was standing among them and greeting them.

Then he said to Thomas, “put your finger in my hands. Put your hand into my side. Don’t be faithless any longer. Believe!”

“My Lord and my God!” Thomas said.

Then Jesus told him, you believe because you have seen me. But blessed are those who haven’t seen me in believe anyway.”

Jesus disciples saw him do many other miracles besides the one written in this book, but these are recorded so that you will believe that he is the Messiah, the son of God, and that believing in him you will have life.