[English Bible Study] John Chapter 20
Jn. 20:1 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.
Jn. 20:2 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!”
Jn. 20:3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb.
Jn. 20:4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and
reached the tomb first.
Jn. 20:5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there
but did not go in.
Jn. 20:6 Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went
into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there,
Jn. 20:7 as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus’ head.
The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen.
Jn. 20:8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first,
also went inside. He saw and believed.
Jn. 20:9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had
to rise from the dead.)
Jn. 20:10 Then the disciples went back to their homes,
Jn. 20:11 but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she
bent over to look into the tomb
Jn. 20:12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had
been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
Jn. 20:13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have
taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where
they have put him.”
Jn. 20:14 At this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but
she did not realise that it was Jesus.
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Jn. 20:15 “Woman,” he said, “why are you crying? Who is it you are
looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if
you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him,
and I will get him.”
Jn. 20:16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned towards him and cried
out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher).
Jn. 20:17 Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned
to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, `I am
returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your
God.’“
Jn. 20:18 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.
Jn. 20:19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the
disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the
Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be
with you!”
Jn. 20:20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The
disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.
Jn. 20:21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent
me, I am sending you.”
Jn. 20:22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the
Holy Spirit.
Jn. 20:23 If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not
forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
Jn. 20:24 Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not
with the disciples when Jesus came.
Jn. 20:25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands
and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into
his side, I will not believe it.”
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Jn. 20:26 A week later his disciples were in the house again, and
Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus
came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
Jn. 20:27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands.
Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting
and believe.”
Jn. 20:28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
Jn. 20:29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have
believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have
believed.”
Jn. 20:30 Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his
disciples, which are not recorded in this book.
Jn. 20:31 But these are written that you may [Some manuscripts: may
continue to] believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that by believing you may have life in his name.
