The Empty Tomb !

John 20: 1-9 & 18

1. Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2. So, she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put Him!”

3. So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but he did not go in. 6. Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there,7 as well as the burial cloth that has been around Jesus’ head. The cloth was folded by itself, separate from the linen.8. Finally, the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9. They still did not understand from the scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.

18. Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that He had said these things to her.