When Jesus reached the place, he found that Lazarus had been four days in the tomb already.

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.

Again groaning inwardly, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against the mouth of it.

Meanwhile the people who were with him, when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, were telling what they had seen.

At the place where Jesus had been crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a newly-made tomb in which no one had ever been laid.

And so, because of its being the Preparation Day, and as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.

On the first day of the week, early in the morning, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been removed.

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!"

Upon this, Peter started off with that other disciple, and they went to the tomb.

The two began running together; but the other disciple ran faster than Peter, and reached the tomb first.

Presently Simon Peter came following behind him, and went into the tomb; and he looked at the linen wrappings lying there,

Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, went inside too, and he saw for himself and was convinced.

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