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On
the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women
took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found
the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they
did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering
about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like
lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down
with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, 'Why do
you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has
risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in
Galilee: 'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of
sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.'
Then they remembered his words.
When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to
the eleven and to all the others. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna,
Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this
to the apostles. But they did not believe the women, because their
words seemed to them like nonsense. Peter, however, got up and ran
to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by
themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had
happened.
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