Mark 16:9-20

New Testament for Everyone

⁹ [When Jesus was raised, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first of all to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. ¹⁰ She went and told the people who had been with him, who were mourning and weeping. ¹¹ When they heard that he was alive, and that he had been seen by her, they didn’t believe it.

¹² After this he appeared in a different guise to two of them as they were walking into the countryside. ¹³ They came back and told the others, but they didn’t believe them.

¹⁴ Later Jesus appeared to the eleven themselves, as they were at table. He told them off for their unbelief and hardheartedness, for not believing those who had seen him after he had been raised.

¹⁵ “Go into all the world,” he said to them, “and announce the message to all creation. ¹⁶ Anyone who believes and is baptized will be rescued, but people who don’t believe will be condemned. ¹⁷ And these signs will happen around those who believe: they will drive out demons in my name, they will speak with new tongues, ¹⁸ they will pick up serpents in their hands; and if they drink anything poisonous it won’t harm them. They will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get better.”

¹⁹ When the Lord Jesus had spoken with them, he was taken up into heaven, and sat down at God’s right hand. ²⁰ They went out and announced the message everywhere. The Lord worked with them, validating their message by the signs that accompanied them.]