# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S54
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

54 Proceedings of the nineteenth convention

from the dead. And behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him. Lo, I have told you." In Mark it is especially emphasized that the angel said: "Tell his disciples and Peter." After the women had received this message of the angel, they went out quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, to bring his disciples word.

e. Of these, Peter and John, informed by Mary Magdalene of the empty tomb, had meanwhile already set out on the way, and they found it as Mary had told them. John, who had run faster than Peter, did not go into the tomb at once but only cast a glance inside and saw the linen cloths lying there; Peter, who came after, went into the tomb. There he saw the linen cloths lying, and also the napkin that had been bound about Jesus' head, not laid beside the linen cloths but wrapped together aside in a place by itself. That did not look as if someone had stolen the body of the Lord; for whoever had wanted to do that would probably have carried him off together with the linen cloths and would not have taken time to lay everything down in order and with care, but would rather have left traces of his haste behind. Peter saw that; then John also went into the tomb, saw and believed it: the body of the Lord is gone, but it cannot be enemies who have taken him away. Thereupon both disciples went away from the tomb, probably back to the city, without having seen anything else than the empty tomb, neither an angel nor the Lord himself.

f. But Mary Magdalene, who had surely come again directly behind them, stood outside before the tomb and wept, John 20. Weeping she goes in also. She sees not just one but two angels in white garments sitting, one at the head, the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. They said to her: "Woman, why weepest thou?" She is not frightened, does not take the two figures for angels either, and says to them: "They have taken away my Lord" ("they," someone, friends or enemies), "and I know not where they have laid him." And when she had said this, she turned herself and sees Jesus standing, but does not know that it is Jesus. He, however, says to her: "Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou?" By his clothing he who spoke with her might be the gardener, and so she said to him, without looking at him properly: "Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away." Now Jesus calls her by her name: "Mary!" Then she turns and says to him: "Rabboni, that is to say, Master!" Now she has recognized him. When she now wants to take hold of him and touch him, although she recognizes him and is now convinced of his resurrection, the Lord says to her: "Touch me not" etc., and himself gives her the commission which the other women had received from the angel, to bring word to his brethren. Without delay