Matthew 28:1-10 - Jesus Is Raised

¹ After the Sabbaths, around dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to take a look at the burial site. ² Suddenly, there was a powerful earthquake, because an angel of the Lord had come down from heaven, approached the stone, rolled it away, and was sitting on top of it. ³ His appearance was bright as lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. ⁴ Trembling from fear, even the guards themselves became catatonic.

⁵ Responding to the women, the angel said, "Stop being frightened! I know you're looking for Jesus, who was crucified. ⁶ He is not here. He has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying. ⁷ Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. He is going ahead of you into Galilee, and you will see him there. Remember, I have told you!"

⁸ So they quickly left the tomb, terrified but also ecstatic, and ran to tell Jesus' disciples. ⁹ Suddenly, Jesus met them and said, "Greetings!" They went up to him, took hold of his feet, and worshipped him. ¹⁰ Then Jesus told them, "Stop being frightened! Go and tell my brothers to leave for Galilee, and they will see me there."

¹ When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint Jesus. ² Very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had just come up, they were going to the tomb. ³ They kept saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?" ⁴ Then they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled away. (It was a very large stone.) ⁵ As they went into the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were utterly astonished.

⁶ But he told them, "Stop being astonished! You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised. He is not here. Look at the place where they laid him. ⁷ But go and tell his disciples especially Peter that Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you."

⁸ So they left the tomb and ran away, overwhelmed by shock and astonishment. They didn't say a thing to anyone, because they were afraid.

¹ But at early dawn on the first day of the week, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. ² They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, ³ but when they went in, they didn't find the body of the Lord Jesus. ⁴ While they were puzzling over this, two men in dazzling robes suddenly stood beside them. ⁵ While the women remained terrified, bowing their faces to the ground, the men asked them, "Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is living? ⁶ He is not here, but has been raised. Remember what he told you while he was still in Galilee: ⁷ "The Son of Man must be handed over to sinful men, be crucified, and rise on the third day.'" ⁸ Then the women remembered Jesus' words.

⁹ They returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven disciples and all the others. ¹⁰ The women who told the apostles about it were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and some others. ¹¹ But what they said seemed nonsense to them, so they did not believe them. ¹² Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. He stooped down and saw only the linen cloths. Then he went home, wondering about what had happened.

¹ On the first day of the week, early in the morning and while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and noticed that the stone had been removed from the tomb. ² So she ran off and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus kept loving. She told them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

³ So Peter and the other disciple took off for the tomb. ⁴ The two of them were running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and came to the tomb first. ⁵ Bending over to look inside, he noticed the linen cloths lying there, but didn't go in. ⁶ At this point Simon Peter arrived, following him, and went straight into the tomb. He observed that the linen cloths were lying there, ⁷ and that the handkerchief that had been on Jesus' head was not lying with the linen cloths but was rolled up in a separate place. ⁸ Then the other disciple, who arrived at the tomb first, went inside, looked, and believed. ⁹ For they did not yet understand the Scripture that said that Jesus had to rise from the dead.