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(They still did not understand the scripture which said that he must rise from death.)
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Then the disciples went back home.
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Mary stood crying outside the tomb. While she was still crying, she bent over and looked in the tomb
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and saw two angels there dressed in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head and the other at the feet.
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"Woman, why are you crying?" they asked her. She answered, "They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!"
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Then she turned around and saw Jesus standing there; but she did not know that it was Jesus.
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"Woman, why are you crying?" Jesus asked her. "Who is it that you are looking for?" She thought he was the gardener, so she said to him, "If you took him away, sir, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him."
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Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned toward him and said in Hebrew, "Rabboni!" (This means "Teacher.")
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"Do not hold on to me," Jesus told her, "because I have not yet gone back up to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am returning to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God."
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So Mary Magdalene went and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and related to them what he had told her.
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It was late that Sunday evening, and the disciples were gathered together behind locked doors, because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities. Then Jesus came and stood among them. "Peace be with you," he said.