¹Then when the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices with which to come and anoint him. ²And very early on the first day of the week they came to the sepulchre, with the sun having risen, ³and they were saying to each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance to the sepulchre for us?” ⁴Then they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled away. Now it was very large. ⁵Then they went into the sepulchre and saw a young man sitting on the right, clothed in a white robe, and they were astonished. ⁶But he said to them, “Do not be astonished. You are seeking Jesus the Nazarene who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they put him. ⁷But go off and tell his disciples, including Peter, that he is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there, as he told you.” ⁸At this they went out and ran away from the sepulchre, and trembling and bewilderment possessed them, and they didn't say anything to anyone, for they were afraid. ⁹Then after he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons. ¹⁰She departed and told those who had been in company with him, who were mourning and weeping. ¹¹And when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe it. ¹²And after this, he was manifested in another form to two of them who were walking around, as they were going to a field. ¹³At this they went off and told the rest. But those did not believe them either. ¹⁴Later, he was manifested to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he reproached their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen him risen. ¹⁵And he said to them, “Go into the whole world and preach the gospel to the whole of creation. ¹⁶He who has believed and has been baptized will be saved, but he who has not believed will be condemned. ¹⁷And these signs will closely follow those who have believed. They will cast out demons in my name; they will speak in new tongues; ¹⁸they will take up serpents; even if they drink anything deadly, it will not harm them at all; they will lay hands on the infirm, and they will get better.” ¹⁹So then, after speaking to them, the Lord was taken up into heaven, and he sat down at the right hand of God. ²⁰And they went out and preached everywhere, with the Lord working with them, confirming the word through signs following. Amen.