1 It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb
2 and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb,’ she said, ‘and we don’t know where they have put him.’
3 So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb.
4 They ran together, but the other disciple, running faster than Peter, reached the tomb first;
5 he bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in.
6 Simon Peter, following him, also came up, went into the tomb, saw the linen cloths lying on the ground
7 and also the cloth that had been over his head; this was not with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself.
8 Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in; he saw and he believed.
9 Till this moment they had still not understood the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
- John 20:1-9 (Gospel reading for April 24, 2011)
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thanks to a visiting priest i understood this gospel a little more.all these years i thought that when simon peter and the other disciple reached the tomb and they believed it was because they believed that Jesus has risen…i know now that they believed that He was taken away,that somebody had removed His body.but mary of magdala was stubborn,she wanted to find out where was the body.hence it was she whom the Lord appeared to first.this has become one of my fave gospel reading:)