Go, tell … – Day 15

₁₀Then the disciples went back home.

₁₁Mary stood crying outside the tomb. While she was still crying, she bent over and looked in the tomb ₁₂and saw two angels there dressed in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head and the other at the feet. ₁₃“Woman, why are you crying?” they asked her.

She answered, “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!”

₁₄Then she turned round and saw Jesus standing there; but she did not know that it was Jesus. ₁₅“Woman, why are you crying?” Jesus asked her. “Who is it that you are looking for?”

She thought he was the gardener, so she said to him, “If you took him away, sir, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him.”

₁₆Jesus said to her, “Mary!”

She turned towards him and said in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (This means “Teacher”.)

₁₇“Do not hold on to me,” Jesus told her, “because I have not yet gone back up to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am returning to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God.”

₁₈So Mary Magdalene went and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and related to them what he had told her.