15. “Dear woman, why are you crying?” Jesus asked her. “Who are you looking for?”She thought he was the gardener. “Sir,” she said, “if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him.”
16. “Mary!” Jesus said.She turned to him and cried out, “Rabboni!” (which is Hebrew for “Teacher”).
17. “Don’t cling to me,” Jesus said, “for I haven’t yet ascended to the Father. But go find my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
18. Mary Magdalene found the disciples and told them, “I have seen the Lord!” Then she gave them his message.
19. That Sunday evening the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! “Peace be with you,” he said.
20. As he spoke, he showed them the wounds in his hands and his side. They were filled with joy when they saw the Lord!
21. Again he said, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.”
22. Then he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
23. If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven. If you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
24. One of the twelve disciples, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin), was not with the others when Jesus came.