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Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb; as she wept, she bent down to look inside.

She saw two angels dressed in white sitting where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the feet.

They said to her:

“Woman, why are you weeping?”

She replied:

“They have taken my Lord, and I don’t know where they laid him.”

As she said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not recognize him.

Jesus asked her:

“Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?”

She thought he was the gardener and answered:

“Sir, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him.”

Jesus said to her:

“Mary!”

She turned and said to him:

“Rabboni!”—which means Teacher.

Jesus told 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.”

So Mary of Magdala went and told the disciples:

“I have seen the Lord, and this is what he said to me.”