1. Very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, carrying the spices they had prepared.
2. They found the stone rolled away from the entrance to the tomb,
3. so they went in; but they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
4. They stood there puzzled about this, when suddenly two men in bright shining clothes stood by them.
5. Full of fear, the women bowed down to the ground, as the men said to them, “Why are you looking among the dead for one who is alive?
6. He is not here; he has been raised. Remember what he said to you while he was in Galilee:
7. ‘The Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, be crucified, and three days later rise to life.’ ”
8. Then the women remembered his words,
9. returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven disciples and all the rest.
10. The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; they and the other women with them told these things to the apostles.
11. But the apostles thought that what the women said was nonsense, and they did not believe them.
12. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; he bent down and saw the linen wrappings but nothing else. Then he went back home amazed at what had happened.
13. On that same day two of Jesus' followers were going to a village named Emmaus, about eleven kilometres from Jerusalem,
14. and they were talking to each other about all the things that had happened.
15. As they talked and discussed, Jesus himself drew near and walked along with them;