³ For I betook to you at the beginning that thing which also I have received; that Christ was dead for our sins, by the scriptures;^[a]

⁴ and that he was buried, and that he rose again in the third day, after [the] scriptures;

⁴ And it was done, the while [while] they were astonished in thought of this thing, lo! two men stood beside them in shining cloak^[a].

⁵ And when they dreaded, and bowed their semblance into the earth, they said to them, What seek ye him that liveth with dead men [What seek ye the living with the dead]?

⁶ He is not here, but is risen. Have ye mind, how he spake to you, when he was yet in Galilee,

⁷ and said [saying], For it behooveth man's Son to be betaken into the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and the third day to rise again.

³⁶ And while they spake these things, Jesus stood in the middle of them, and said to them, Peace to you; I am, do not ye dread.

³⁷ But they were afraid and aghast, and guessed them to see a spirit.

³⁸ And he said to them, What be ye troubled, and thoughts come up into your hearts [and thoughts ascend up into your hearts]?

³⁹ See ye my hands and my feet, for I myself am. Feel ye, and see ye; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see that I have [as ye see me to have].

⁴⁰ And when he had said this thing, he showed hands and feet to them.

¹⁷ And when I had seen him, I felled down [I fell down] at his feet, as dead. And he putted his right hand on me, and said^[a], Do not thou dread; I am the first and the last;

¹⁸ and I am alive, and I was dead; and lo! I am living into worlds of worlds, and I have the keys of death and of hell.