"Woman," said Jesus to her, "why are you weeping? Who is it that you are looking for?"
Mary thought that this strange man was the gardener. She said to him:
"Oh, sir, if you have carried him anywhere, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away myself."
"Mary!" said Jesus.
And as he spoke her name, she knew him; and fell at his feet, clasping them in her hands.
"My own Master!" was all that she could say, in her joy at seeing him alive once more, whom she had last looked upon dead, hanging on the cross.
"Do not hold me," said Jesus, "for I have yet to arise and go to my Father in heaven; but go to my brothers, my disciples, and tell them that I shall soon rise up from the earth and go to my Father and your Father, to my God, and your God."
Mary Magdalene went and found the disciples, and said to them, "I have seen the Lord!" telling them also what he had said to her.
After Mary Magdalene had gone away from the tomb, the other women—Mary the wife of Clopas, Joanna, and Salome—came back from having seen the disciples, and having told them what the angel had said, that Jesus had risen. As they drew near the tomb, Jesus went to meet them.
"Welcome!" he said to the women. They ran up to him, fell on their faces, and clasped his feet, just as Mary had done, for they felt joy and fear mingled as they saw him.