"You have no bucket, Sir, and the well is deep," she said; "where did you get that 'living water?'

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat quietly at home.

"Yes Master," she answered; "I have learned to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, 'who was to come' into the world."

As soon as Mary heard that, she got up quickly, and went to meet him.

So the Jews, who were in the house with Mary, condoling with her, when they saw her get up quickly and go out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she threw herself at his feet. "Master," she exclaimed, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

"Let her alone," said Jesus, "that she may keep it till the day when my body is being prepared for burial.

A woman in labor is in pain because her time has come; but no sooner is the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her joy that a man has been born into the world.

So she came running to Simon Peter, and to that other disciple who was Jesus' friend, and said to them: "They have taken away the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him!"

Meanwhile Mary was standing close outside the tomb, weeping. Still weeping, she leant forward into the tomb,

"Why are you weeping?" asked the angels. "They have taken my Master away," she answered, "and I do not know where they have laid him."

After saying this, she turned round, and looked at Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

"Mary!" said Jesus. She turned round, and exclaimed in Hebrew: "Rabboni!" (or, as we should say, 'Teacher').

Mary of Magdala went and told the disciples that she had seen the Master, and that he had said this to her.