The Empty Tomb

Wycliffe's Bible (Modern Spelling)

Mat 28:1–8

1 But in the eventide of the sabbath, or holiday, that beginneth to shine in the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came, and another Mary, to see the sepulchre.
2 And lo! there was made a great earth-shaking; for the angel of the Lord came down from heaven, and nighed, and turned away the stone, and sat thereon.
3 And his looking was as lightning, and his clothes white as snow;
4 and for dread of him the keepers were afeared, and they were made as dead men.
5 But the angel answered, and said to the women, Do not ye dread, for I know that ye seek Jesus, that was crucified;
6 he is not here, for he is risen, as he said; come ye, and see ye the place, where the Lord was laid.
7 And go ye soon, and say ye to his disciples, that he is risen. And lo! he shall go before you into Galilee; there ye shall see him. Lo! I have before-said to you.
8 And they went out soon from the burials or the sepulchre, with dread, and great joy, running to tell to his disciples.

1 And when the sabbath was passed, Mary Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome bought sweet smelling ointments, to come and to anoint Jesus.
2 And full early in one of the week days, they came to the sepulchre, when the sun was risen.
3 And they said together, Who shall move or turn away to us the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
4 And they beheld, and saw the stone wallowed away, for it was full great.
5 And they went into the sepulchre, and saw a youngling, covered with a white stole, sitting at the right half; and they were afeared.
6 Which saith to them, Do not ye dread; ye seek Jesus of Nazareth crucified; he is risen, he is not here; lo! the place where they laid him.
7 But go ye, and say to his disciples, and to Peter, that he shall go before you into Galilee; there ye shall see him, as he said to you.
8 And they went out, and fled from the sepulchre; for dread and quaking or trembling had assailed them, and to no man they said anything, for they dreaded.

1 But in one day of the week full early, they came to the grave, and brought sweet smelling spices, that they had arrayed or which they had made ready.
2 And they found the stone turned away from the grave.
3 And they went in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
4 And it was done, the while they were astonied in thought of this thing, lo! two men stood beside them in shining cloth or shining clothing.
5 And when they dreaded, and bowed their semblance into the earth, they said to them, What seek ye him that liveth with dead men? or What seek ye the living with the dead?
6 He is not here, but is risen. Have ye mind, how he spake to you, when he was yet in Galilee,
7 and said, For it behooveth man’s Son to be betaken into the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and the third day to rise again.
8 And they bethought on his words.
9 And they went again from the grave, and told all these things to the eleven, and to all the others.
10 And there was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and other women that were with them, that said to the apostles these things or that said these things to the apostles.
11 And these words were seen to them as madness, and they believed not to them.
12 But Peter rose up, and ran to the grave; and he bowed down, and saw the linen clothes lying alone. And he went by himself, wondering on that that was done.

1 And in one day of the week, Mary Magdalene came early to the grave, when it was yet dark. And she saw the stone moved away from the grave.
2 Therefore she ran, and came to Simon Peter, and to another disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith to them, They have taken the Lord from the grave, and we know not, where they have laid him.
3 Therefore Peter went out, and that other disciple, and they came to the grave.
4 And they twain ran together, and that other disciple ran before Peter, and came first to the grave.
5 And when he stooped, he saw the sheets lying, nevertheless he entered not.
6 Therefore Simon Peter came pur-suing him, and he entered into the grave, and he saw the sheets laid,
7 and the sudarium that was on his head, not laid with the sheets, but by itself wrapped into a place.
8 Therefore then that disciple that came first to the grave, entered, and saw, and believed.
9 For they knew not yet the scripture, that it behooved him to rise again from death.
10 Therefore the disciples went again to themselves.