Twenty - Mark - 16

16:1  When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought some spices, so that they might go and anoint the body of Jesus.

16:2  And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb, after sunrise.

16:3  They were saying to one another. "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?"

16:4  But, on looking up, they saw that the stone had already been rolled back; it was a very large one.

16:5  Going into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on their right, in a white robe, and they were dismayed; But he said to them.

16:6  "Do not be dismayed; you are looking for Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified; he has risen, he is not here! Look! Here is the place where they laid him.

16:7  But go, and say to his disciples and to Peter 'He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you.'"

16:8  They went out, and fled from the tomb, for they were trembling and bewildered; and they did not say a word to any one, for they were frightened;

16:9  After his rising again, early on the first day of the week, Jesus appeared first of all to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

16:10  She went and told the news to those who had been with him and who were now in sorrow and tears;

16:11  Yet even they, when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, did not believe it.

16:12  Afterwards, altered in appearance, he made himself known to two of them, as they were walking, on their way into the country.

16:13  They also went and told the rest, but they did not believe even them.

16:14  Later on, he made himself known to the Eleven themselves as they were at a meal, and reproached them with their want of faith and their stubbornness, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen from the dead.

16:15  Then he said to them. "Go into all the world, and proclaim the Good News to all creation.

16:16  He who believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he who refuses to believe will be condemned.

16:17  Moreover these signs shall attend those who believe. In my Name they shall drive out demons; they shall speak with 'tongues';

16:18  They shall take up serpents in their hands; and, if they drink any poison, it shall not hurt them; they will place their hands on sick people and they shall recover."

16:19  So the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into Heaven, and sat at the right hand of God.

16:20  But they set out, and made the proclamation everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the Message by the signs which attended it.