John 20 NLT
1 Early on Sunday morning, while it was
still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been
rolled away from the entrance.
2She ran and found Simon Peter and the other
disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body
out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
3 Peter and the other disciple started out
for the tomb.
4 They were both running, but the other
disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
5 He stooped and looked in and saw the
linen wrappings lying there, but he didn’t go in.
6 Then Simon Peter arrived and went
inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there,
7 while the cloth that had covered Jesus’
head was folded up and lying apart from the other wrappings.
8 Then the disciple who had reached the
tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed—
9 for until then they still hadn’t
understood the Scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead.
10 Then they went home.
11 Mary was standing outside the tomb
crying, and as she wept, she stooped and looked in.
12 She saw two white-robed angels, one
sitting at the head and the other at the foot of the place where the body of
Jesus had been lying.
13 “Dear woman, why are you crying?” the
angels asked her. “Because they have taken away my Lord,” she replied, “and I
don’t know where they have put him.”
14 She turned to leave and saw someone
standing there. It was Jesus, but she didn’t recognize him.
15 “Dear woman, why are you crying?” Jesus
asked her. “Who are you looking for?” She thought he was the gardener. “Sir,”
she said, “if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I
will go and get him.”
16 “Mary!” Jesus said. She turned to him
and cried out, “Rabboni!” (which is Hebrew for “Teacher”).
17 “Don’t cling to me,” Jesus said, “for I
haven’t yet ascended to the Father. But go find my brothers and tell them, ‘I
am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
18 Mary Magdalene found the disciples and
told them, “I have seen the Lord!” Then she gave them his message.
19 That Sunday evening the disciples were
meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders.
Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! “Peace be with you,” he
said.
20 As he spoke, he showed them the wounds
in his hands and his side. They were filled with joy when they saw the
Lord!
21 Again he said, “Peace be with you. As
the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.”
22 Then he breathed on them and said,
“Receive the Holy Spirit.
23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are
forgiven. If you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
24 One of the twelve disciples, Thomas
(nicknamed the Twin), was not with the others when Jesus came.
25 They told him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he replied, “I won’t believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands,
put my fingers into them, and place my hand into the wound in his side.”
26 Eight days later the disciples were
together again, and this time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked; but
suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing among them. “Peace be with you,” he
said.
27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger
here, and look at my hands. Put your hand into the wound in my side. Don’t be
faithless any longer. Believe!”
28 “My Lord and my God!” Thomas
exclaimed.
29 Then Jesus told him, “You believe
because you have seen me. Blessed are those who believe without seeing
me.”
30 The disciples saw Jesus do many other
miraculous signs in addition to the ones recorded in this book.
31 But these are written so that you may
continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by
believing in him you will have life by the power of his name.
John 21 NLT
1 Later, Jesus appeared again to the
disciples beside the Sea of Galilee. This is how it happened.
2 Several of the disciples were
there—Simon Peter, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee,
the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples.
3 Simon Peter said, “I’m going fishing.”
“We’ll come, too,” they all said. So they went out in the boat, but they caught
nothing all night.
4 At dawn Jesus was standing on the beach,
but the disciples couldn’t see who he was.
5 He called out, “Fellows, have you caught
any fish?” “No,” they replied.
6 Then he said, “Throw out your net on the
right-hand side of the boat, and you’ll get some!” So they did, and they
couldn’t haul in the net because there were so many fish in it.
7 Then the disciple Jesus loved said to
Peter, “It’s the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on
his tunic (for he had stripped for work), jumped into the water, and headed to
shore.
8 The others stayed with the boat and
pulled the loaded net to the shore, for they were only about a hundred yards
from shore.
9 When they got there, they found
breakfast waiting for them—fish cooking over a charcoal fire, and some
bread.
10 “Bring some of the fish you’ve just
caught,” Jesus said.
11 So Simon Peter went aboard and dragged
the net to the shore. There were 153 large fish, and yet the net hadn’t
torn.
12 “Now come and have some breakfast!”
Jesus said. None of the disciples dared to ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it
was the Lord.
13Then Jesus served them the bread and the
fish.
14 This was the third time Jesus had
appeared to his disciples since he had been raised from the dead.
15 After breakfast Jesus asked Simon Peter,
“Simon son of John, do you love me more than these? ” “Yes, Lord,” Peter
replied, “you know I love you.” “Then feed my lambs,” Jesus told him.
16 Jesus repeated the question: “Simon son
of John, do you love me?” “Yes, Lord,” Peter said, “you know I love you.” “Then
take care of my sheep,” Jesus said.
17 A third time he asked him, “Simon son of
John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt that Jesus asked the question a third
time. He said, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you.” Jesus
said, “Then feed my sheep.
18 “I tell you the truth, when you were
young, you were able to do as you liked; you dressed yourself and went wherever
you wanted to go. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and
others will dress you and take you where you don’t want to go.”
19 Jesus said this to let him know by what
kind of death he would glorify God. Then Jesus told him, “Follow me.”
20 Peter turned around and saw behind them
the disciple Jesus loved—the one who had leaned over to Jesus during supper and
asked, “Lord, who will betray you?”
21 Peter asked Jesus, “What about him,
Lord?”
22 Jesus replied, “If I want him to remain
alive until I return, what is that to you? As for you, follow me.”
23 So the rumor spread among the community
of believers that this disciple wouldn’t die. But that isn’t what Jesus said at
all. He only said, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that
to you?”
24 This disciple is the one who testifies
to these events and has recorded them here. And we know that his account of
these things is accurate.
25 Jesus also did many other things. If
they were all written down, I suppose the whole world could not contain the
books that would be written.
