11 But Maria had stayed there outside the tomb weeping. But when she stooped down and looked into the tomb, 12 she saw two messengers dressed in white sitting there—one at the head end and one at the feet end of the slab where Yeshua’s body had been lying. 13 They spoke to her, “Woman, why are you crying?”

“Because they’ve taken away my master,” she replied, “and I don’t know where they’ve put him.”

14 Then she turned back around and saw Yeshua standing there, but she didn’t realise who it was. 15 Yeshua asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?”

Maria assumed he might be the gardener, so she answered, “Mister, if you took the body, tell me where you put it and I’ll get it taken away for you.”

16 Yeshua just answered, “Maria.”

She spun around and said, “My teacher!” (‘Rabboni’ in Hebrew.)

17 “Don’t touch me,” Yeshua said to her, “because I haven’t gone back up to the father yet, but go and tell my brothers that I’m going up to my father and the father of you all, and my god and the god of you all.”

18 So Maria went and told the trainees, “I’ve seen the master,” and she told them what he’d said.