Chapter
16
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the father of Jamie, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint her.
Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?"
for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.
Entering into the tomb, they saw a young woman sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.
She said to them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. She has risen. She is not here. Behold, the place where they laid her!
But go, tell her disciples and Petra, 'She goes before you into Galilee. There you will see her, as she said to you.'"
They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.
Now when she had risen early on the first day of the week, she appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom she had cast out seven demons.
He went and told those who had been with her, as they mourned and wept.
When they heard that she was alive, and had been seen by him, they disbelieved.
After these things she was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.
They went away and told it to the rest. They didn't believe them, either.
Afterward she was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and she rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen her after she had risen.
She said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
She who believes and is baptized will be saved; but she who disbelieves will be condemned.
These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;
they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."
So then the Domina Jesus, after she had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
They went out, and preached everywhere, the Domina working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.