[24:1] Very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, carrying the spices they had prepared.
[24:2] They found the stone rolled away from the entrance to the tomb,
[24:3] so they went in; but they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
[24:4] They stood there puzzled about this, when suddenly two men in bright shining clothes stood by them.
[24:5] Full of fear, the women bowed down to the ground, as the men said to them, “Why are you looking among the dead for one who is alive?
[24:6] He is not here; he has been raised. Remember what he said to you while he was in Galilee:
[24:7] ‘The Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, be crucified, and three days later rise to life.’”
[24:8] Then the women remembered his words,
[24:9] returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven disciples and all the rest.
[24:10] The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; they and the other women with them told these things to the apostles.
[24:11] But the apostles thought that what the women said was nonsense, and they did not believe them.
[24:12] But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; he bent down and saw the grave cloths but nothing else. Then he went back home amazed at what had happened.