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Now, in the region where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the
garden a new tomb in which no one had been placed. So because it was the
Friday the Preparation Day of the Jews, and the tomb was near, in it they
placed Yeshua.
(Chapter 20)YESHUA APPEARS TO MIRYAM OF MAGDALA
On Sunday the first day of the week, Miryam of Magdala came to the tomb
early while it was still dark and saw that the stone had been removed from the
tomb. So she ran and came to Shimon Kefa and to the other student whom
Yeshua loved and said to them,
"They took the lord from the tomb
and we don't know where they put him."
Then Kefa and the other student came out and went to the tomb. The two
ran together, but the student ran faster than Kefa and reached the tomb first.
And he stooped down and saw the linen cloths lying there, but didn't go in.
Then Shimon Kefa came, following him, and he went into the tomb and saw
the linen cloths lying there, but the kerchief which had been on his head was
lying not next to the cloths but apart and folded up in its own place. And then
the other student, who had come first to the tomb, saw and believed. They didn't
yet know the scripture that he must rise from the dead.^74
Then the students went off to their own places.
But Miryam stood by the tomb, weeping. Then as she was weeping, she
stooped and looked into the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there,
one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Yeshua was laid.
And they said to her,
"Woman, why are you weeping?"
She said to them,
"They have taken my lord away
and I don't know where they put him."- There is a resurrection of the dead in Isaiah 26:19 and Daniel 12:2. The notion of resurrec-
tion of the dead and immortality of the soul is derived from Jewish apocalyptic literature and
probably the influence of Plato, platonism, and contemporary Greco-Roman notions.