Luke 24:1-10

1Very early on the first day of the week, they went to the place where Joseph had put Jesus' dead body. They took with them the spices that they had prepared.

2They arrived there. They found that someone had rolled the big stone away from the hole.

3They went inside the hole in the rock, but they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus there.

4They did not understand this at all. But while they were thinking about it, two men appeared. Their clothes shone brightly like lightning. These men came and stood beside them.

5So the women became very afraid and they went down low with their faces on the ground. The men said to the women, ‘This is a place to bury dead people. You should not be looking here for someone who is alive.

6Jesus is not here. He has become alive again! Remember what he said to you, while he was still with you in Galilee.

7He said, “It is necessary that someone should give the Son of Man into the power of bad men. They will kill him on a cross. But three days later he will become alive again.” ’

8Then the women remembered the words that Jesus had said in Galilee.

9They left the hole where Jesus' body had been. They went to the 11 apostles. They told them what had happened. They also told all the other people who were there.

10It was Mary from Magdala, Joanna, James' mother Mary, and other women who were with them that told the news about Jesus to the apostles.