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John 20<\/em><\/strong>: 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. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, \u201cThey have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don\u2019t know where they have put him!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus\u2019 head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.<\/em><\/p>\n Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus\u2019 body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.<\/em><\/p>\n They asked her, \u201cWoman, why are you crying?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThey have taken my Lord away,\u201d she said, \u201cand I don\u2019t know where they have put him.\u201dAt this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.<\/em><\/p>\n He asked her,\u00a0\u201cWoman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Thinking he was the gardener, she said, \u201cSir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Jesus said to her,\u00a0\u201cMary.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, \u201cRabboni!\u201d (which means \u201cTeacher\u201d).<\/em><\/p>\n Jesus said,\u00a0\u201cDo not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, \u2018I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: \u201cI have seen the Lord!\u201d And she told them that he had said these things to her.<\/em><\/p>\n ~ ~ ~<\/strong><\/p>\n Have a very Happy Easter everyone, may your day be blessed with family and friends, joy, laughter and the love of the Lord.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Easter is a celebration of love that never fails\u2026 \u2026And life that never ends. John 20: 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. So she came running to Simon Peter and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[599],"class_list":{"0":"post-4406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"tag-happy-easter","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-194","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1903,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/12\/happy-easter\/","url_meta":{"origin":4406,"position":0},"title":"Happy Easter","author":"Jeff","date":"April 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Easter is a celebration of love that never fails... \u2026And life that never ends. 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