^6 [a]He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. ^7 (A)Then go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has been raised from the dead, and he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him.’ Behold, I have told you.” ⁸ Then they went away quickly from the tomb, fearful yet overjoyed, and ran to announce^[b] this to his disciples. ^9 [c](B)And behold, Jesus met them on their way and greeted them. They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage. ¹⁰ Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”

The Report of the Guard.^[d]

⁶ He said to them, “Do not be amazed! You seek Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him. ⁷ But go and tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you.’”^{(A) 8} Then they went out and fled from the tomb, seized with trembling and bewilderment. They said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

The Longer Ending^[a]

The Appearance to Mary Magdalene. [^9 (B)When he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. ^10 (C)She went and told his companions who were mourning and weeping. ¹¹ When they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.

The Appearance to Two Disciples. ^12 (D)After this he appeared in another form to two of them walking along on their way to the country. ¹³ They returned and told the others; but they did not believe them either.

The Commissioning of the Eleven. ^14 (E)[But] later, as the eleven were at table, he appeared to them and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart because they had not believed those who saw him after he had been raised.

⁶ He is not here, but he has been raised.^[a] Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee, ⁷ that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners and be crucified, and rise on the third day.”^{(A) 8} And they remembered his words.^{(B) 9 [b](C)}Then they returned from the tomb and announced all these things to the eleven and to all the others. ¹⁰ The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; the others who accompanied them also told this to the apostles,^{(D) 11} but their story seemed like nonsense and they did not believe them. ^12 [c](E)But Peter got up and ran to the tomb, bent down, and saw the burial cloths alone; then he went home amazed at what had happened.

The Appearance on the Road to Emmaus.^{[d] 13} Now that very day two of them were going to a village seven miles^[e] from Jerusalem called Emmaus,^{(F) 14} and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred. ¹⁵ And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, ^16 [f](G)but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. ¹⁷ He asked them, “What are you discussing as you walk along?” They stopped, looking downcast. ¹⁸ One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know of the things that have taken place there in these days?” ¹⁹ And he replied to them, “What sort of things?” They said to him, “The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,^{(H) 20} how our chief priests and rulers both handed him over to a sentence of death and crucified him. ^21 (I)But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel; and besides all this, it is now the third day since this took place. ^22 (J)Some women from our group, however, have astounded us: they were at the tomb early in the morning ²³ and did not find his body; they came back and reported that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who announced that he was alive. ^24 (K)Then some of those with us went to the tomb and found things just as the women had described, but him they did not see.” ^25 (L)And he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! ²⁶ Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer^[g] these things and enter into his glory?” ²⁷ Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the scriptures.^{(M) 28} As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression that he was going on farther. ²⁹ But they urged him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them. ³⁰ And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. ³¹ With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. ³² Then they said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning [within us] while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?” ³³ So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and those with them ³⁴ who were saying, “The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!”^{(N) 35} Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.

The Appearance to the Disciples in Jerusalem. ^36 [h]While they were still speaking about this,^(O) he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.”^{(P) 37} But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost.^{(Q) 38} Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? ^39 [i]Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.” ^40 (R)And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. ⁴¹ While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” ⁴² They gave him a piece of baked fish;^{(S) 43} he took it and ate it in front of them.

¹¹ But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping.^(A) And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb ¹² and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been. ¹³ And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken my Lord, and I don’t know where they laid him.” ¹⁴ When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus.^{(B) 15} Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?”^(C) She thought it was the gardener and said to him, “Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.” ¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,”^[a] which means Teacher. ¹⁷ Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me,^[b] for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”^{(D) 18} Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and what he told her.

Appearance to the Disciples.^{[c] 19} On the evening of that first day of the week,^(E) when the doors were locked, where the disciples^[d] were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” ²⁰ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.^[e] The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.^(F)

^3 [a]For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures;^{(A) 4} that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures;^{(B) 5} that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve.^{(C) 6} After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. ⁷ After that he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. ⁸ Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me.^(D)