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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>John 20 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > John 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/19.htm" title="John 19">◄</a> John 20 <a href="../john/21.htm" title="John 21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/john/20.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Resurrection</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Early on Sunday morning,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>She 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!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Peter and the other disciple started out for the tomb. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They were both running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He stooped and looked in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he didn’t go in. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>while the cloth that had covered Jesus’ head was folded up and lying apart from the other wrappings. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>for until then they still hadn’t understood the Scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then they went home.</p><p class="hdg">Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Mary was standing outside the tomb crying, and as she wept, she stooped and looked in. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Dear woman, why are you crying?” the angels asked her.</p><p class="reg">“Because they have taken away my Lord,” she replied, “and I don’t know where they have put him.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>She turned to leave and saw someone standing there. It was Jesus, but she didn’t recognize him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">“Dear woman, why are you crying?”</span> Jesus asked her. <span class="red">“Who are you looking for?”</span></p><p class="reg">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.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">“Mary!”</span> Jesus said.</p><p class="reg">She turned to him and cried out, “Rabboni!” (which is Hebrew for “Teacher”).</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">“Don’t cling to me,”</span> Jesus said, <span class="red">“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.’”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Mary Magdalene found the disciples and told them, “I have seen the Lord!” Then she gave them his message.</p><p class="hdg">Jesus Appears to His Disciples</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>That Sunday evening<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! <span class="red">“Peace be with you,”</span> he said. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>As he spoke, he showed them the wounds in his hands and his side. They were filled with joy when they saw the Lord! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Again he said, <span class="red">“Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then he breathed on them and said, <span class="red">“Receive the Holy Spirit.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="red">If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven. If you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”</span></p><p class="hdg">Jesus Appears to Thomas</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>One of the twelve disciples, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin),<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> was not with the others when Jesus came. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>They told him, “We have seen the Lord!”</p><p class="reg">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.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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. <span class="red">“Peace be with you,”</span> he said. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then he said to Thomas, <span class="red">“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!”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“My Lord and my God!” Thomas exclaimed.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then Jesus told him, <span class="red">“You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who believe without seeing me.”</span></p><p class="hdg">Purpose of the Book</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The disciples saw Jesus do many other miraculous signs in addition to the ones recorded in this book. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/20-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But these are written so that you may continue to believe<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> 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.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">20:1 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">On the first day of the week.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">20:19 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">In the evening of that day, the first day of the week.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">20:24 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">Thomas, who was called Didymus.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">20:31 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts read </span><span class="it">that you may believe.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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