9. For they did not yet understand the scripture that he had to rise from the dead.
10. Then the disciples returned home.
11. But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping. 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.
15. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” 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,” which means Teacher.
17. Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me, 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.’”
18. Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and what he told her.
19. On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples 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. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
21. [Jesus] said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
22. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the holy Spirit.
23. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.”
24. Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.