55 The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph. They saw the hole in the rock where Joseph put Jesus' body. 56 Then they returned to the house where they were staying in Jerusalem. They prepared spices and oil that had a beautiful smell. On the Jewish day of rest they obeyed God's Law and they did not work.
Luke 24
Jesus becomes alive again
1 Very early on the first day of the week, the women went to the grave hole where Joseph had put Jesus' dead body. They took with them the spices that they had prepared. 2 They found that someone had rolled the big stone away from the hole. 3 They went into the hole in the rock, but they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus there. 4 They 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 the women. 5 So the women became very afraid and they bent 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. 6 Jesus is not here. He has become alive again! Remember what he said to you, while he was still with you in Galilee. 7 He 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.” ’
8 Then the women remembered the words that Jesus had said in Galilee. 9 They left the grave 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 with them. 10 It was Mary from Magdala, Joanna, James' mother Mary, and other women who were with them that told the news about Jesus to the apostles. 11 But the apostles did not believe what the women said. They thought that it was just a silly story. 12 But Peter got up and ran to the grave hole. He bent down and he looked inside. He saw only the pieces of linen cloth that Joseph had put around Jesus' body. There was nothing else. So he went home again. He could not understand what had happened.
