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Mark 16:20   |  829
that we may see and be­l ieve.” ­T hose cru­ci­f ied
with him also ­heaped in­sults on him.
The Death of Jesus
33  At
noon, dark­ness came over the ­w hole
land un­t il ­t hree in the af­ter­noon. 34  And at
t hree in the af­ter­noon ­Jesus ­cried out in a loud
voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sa­bach­tha­ni? ” (which
means “My God, my God, why have you for­
sak­en me?”).  a
35  When some of ­t hose stand­i ng near ­heard
this, they said, “Lis­ten, he’s call­i ng Eli­jah.”
36  Some­one ran, ­f illed a ­s ponge with wine
vin­egar, put it on a ­staff, and of­fered it to ­Jesus
to ­d rink. “Now ­leave him ­a lone. ­L et’s see if Eli­
jah ­comes to take him down,” he said.
37  With a loud cry, ­Jesus b
­ reathed his last.
38  The cur­t ain of the tem­ple was torn in two
from top to bot­tom. 39  And when the cen­t u­r i­on,
who ­stood ­t here in ­f ront of ­Jesus, saw how he
died,  b he said, “Sure­ly this man was the Son
of God!”
40  Some wom­en were watch­i ng from a dis­
tance. ­A mong them were Mary Mag­d a­lene,
Mary the moth­er of ­James the youn­ger and of
Jo­seph,  c and Sa­lo­me. 41  In Gal­i ­lee ­t hese wom­
en had fol­lowed him and ­cared for his ­needs.
Many oth­er wom­en who had come up with
him to Je­r u­sa­lem were also there.
The Burial of Jesus
42  It was Prep­a ­ra­t ion Day (that is, the day be­
fore the Sab­bath). So as eve­n ing ap­proached,
43  Jo­s eph of Ar­i ­m a­t hea, a prom­i ­nent mem­ber
of the Coun­c il, who was him­self wait­i ng for
the king­dom of God, went bold­ly to Pi­late and
a sked for ­Jesus’ body. 44  Pi­late was sur­prised
to hear that he was al­ready dead. Sum­mon­
ing the cen­t u­r i­on, he ­a sked him if ­Jesus had
al­ready died. 45  When he ­learned from the
cen­t u­r i­on that it was so, he gave the body to
Jo­seph. 46  So Jo­seph ­bought some lin­en ­cloth,
took down the body, ­w rapped it in the lin­en,
and ­placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he
rolled a ­stone ­against the en­t rance of the tomb.
47  Mary Mag­da­lene and Mary the moth­er of Jo­
seph saw ­where he was laid.
Jesus Has Risen
16
When the Sab­bath was over, Mary Mag­
da­lene, Mary the moth­er of ­James, and
Sa­lo­me ­bought spic­es so that they ­m ight go
to ­a noint ­Jesus’ body. 2  Very ear­ly on the ­f irst
day of the week, just af­ter sun­r ise, they were
on ­t heir way to the tomb 3  and they ­asked each
oth­er, “Who will roll the ­stone away from the
en­t rance of the tomb?”
4  But when they ­looked up, they saw that the
stone, ­w hich was very ­large, had been ­rolled
away. 5  As they en­tered the tomb, they saw a
young man ­d ressed in a ­white robe sit­t ing on
the r ­ ight side, and they were alarmed.
6  “Don’t be ­a larmed,” he said. “You are look­
ing for ­Jesus the Naz­a ­rene, who was cru­ci­f ied.
He has ris­en! He is not here. See the ­place
w here they laid him. 7  But go, tell his dis­c i­
ples and Pe­ter, ‘He is go­i ng ­a head of you into
Gal­i ­lee. ­T here you will see him, just as he told
you.’ ”
8  Trem­b ling and be­w il­d ered, the wom­e n
went out and fled from the tomb. They said
noth­i ng to any­one, be­cause they were afraid.  d
[The earliest manuscripts and some other
ancient witnesses do not have verses 9–20.]
9  When ­Jesus rose ear­l y on the ­f irst day of the
week, he ap­peared ­f irst to Mary Mag­d a­lene, out
of whom he had driv­en sev­en de­mons. 10  She went
and told ­those who had been with him and who
were mourn­ing and weep­ing. 11  When they ­heard
that ­Jesus was ­alive and that she had seen him,
they did not be­lieve it.
12  Af­ter­ward ­Jesus ap­peared in a dif­fer­ent form
to two of them ­while they were walk­ing in the coun­
try. 13  ­These re­t urned and re­port­ed it to the rest; but
they did not be­lieve them ei­ther.
14  Lat­e r ­Jesus ap­p eared to the Elev­e n as they
were eat­ing; he re­buked them for ­their lack of ­faith
and ­their stub­born re­f us­al to be­lieve ­those who
had seen him af­ter he had ris­en.
15  He said to them, “Go into all the ­world and
preach the gos­pel to all cre­a­t ion. 16  Who­ev­er be­
lieves and is bap­t ized will be ­saved, but who­ev­er
does not be­lieve will be con­demned. 17  And ­these
signs will ac­c om­pa­ny ­those who be­lieve: In my
name they will ­drive out de­mons; they will ­speak in
new ­tongues; 18  they will pick up ­snakes with ­their
hands; and when they ­drink dead­ly poi­son, it will
not hurt them at all; they will ­place ­their ­hands on
sick peo­ple, and they will get well.”
19  Af­t er the Lord ­Jesus had spo­k en to them, he
was tak­en up into heav­en and he sat at the ­r ight
hand of God. 20  Then the dis­ci­ples went out and
preached ev­ery­where, and the Lord ­worked with
them and con­f irmed his word by the ­signs that ac­
com­pa­nied it.
a  34  Psalm 22:1    b  39  Some manuscripts saw that he died with such a cry    c  40  Greek Joses, a variant of Joseph; also
in verse 47    d  8  Some manuscripts have the following ending between verses 8 and 9, and one manuscript has it after
verse 8 (omitting verses 9-20): Then they quickly reported all these instructions to those around Peter. After this, Jesus
himself also sent out through them from east to west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation. Amen.