The Empty Tomb Discovered

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Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Miryam from Magdala went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

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So she came running to Shim‘on Kefa and the other talmid, the one Yeshua loved, and said to them, “They’ve taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they’ve put him!”

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Then Kefa and the other talmid started for the tomb.

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They both ran, but the other talmid outran Kefa and reached the tomb first.

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Stooping down, he saw the linen burial-sheets lying there but did not go in.

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Then, following him, Shim‘on Kefa arrived, entered the tomb and saw the burial-sheets lying there,

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also the cloth that had been around his head, lying not with the sheets but in a separate place and still folded up.

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Then the other talmid, who had arrived at the tomb first, also went in; he saw, and he trusted.

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(They had not yet come to understand that the Tanakh teaches that the Messiah has to rise from the dead.)

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So the talmidim returned home,

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