Bible Verses About Women

But he said, "Don't be so surprised! You're looking for Yeshua from Natzeret, who was executed on the stake. He has risen, he's not here! Look at the place where they laid him.

When Yeshua rose early Sunday, he appeared first to Miryam of Magdala, from whom he had expelled seven demons.

Large numbers of people followed, including women crying and wailing over him.

Yeshua turned to them and said, “Daughters of Yerushalayim, don’t cry for me; cry for yourselves and your children!

All his friends, including the women who had accompanied him from the Galil, had been standing at a distance; they saw it all.

The women who had come with Yeshua from the Galil followed; they saw the tomb and how his body was placed in it.

Then they went back home to prepare spices and ointments. On Shabbat the women rested, in obedience to the commandment;

but the next day, while it was still very early, they took the spices they had prepared, went to the tomb,

and found the stone rolled away from the tomb!

On entering, they discovered that the body of the Lord Yeshua was gone!

They were standing there, not knowing what to think about it, when suddenly two men in dazzlingly bright clothing stood next to them.

Terror-stricken, they bowed down with their faces to the ground. The two men said to them, “Why are you looking for the living among the dead?

He is not here; he has been raised. Remember how he told you while he was still in the Galil,

‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be executed on a stake as a criminal, but on the third day be raised again’?”

Then they remembered his words;

and, returning from the tomb, they told everything to the Eleven and to all the rest.

The women who told the emissaries these things were Miryam of Magdala, Yochanah, Miryam the mother of Ya‘akov, and the others in their circle.

As she said this, she turned around and saw Yeshua standing there, but she didn’t know it was he.

Yeshua said to her, “Lady, why are you crying? Whom are you looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you’re the one who carried him away, just tell me where you put him; and I’ll go and get him myself.”

Yeshua said to her, “Miryam!” Turning, she cried out to him in Hebrew, “Rabbani!” (that is, “Teacher!”)

“Stop holding onto me,” Yeshua said to her, “because I haven’t yet gone back to the Father. But go to my brothers, and tell them that I am going back to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”

Miryam of Magdala went to the talmidim with the news that she had seen the Lord and that he had told her this.

These all devoted themselves single-mindedly to prayer, along with some women, including Miryam (Yeshua’s mother), and his brothers.

Realizing what had happened, he went to the house of Miryam the mother of Yochanan (surnamed Mark), where many people had gathered to pray.

He knocked at the outside door, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer.