Jill Bevilacqua looks at this Sunday’s Gospel reading in her programme, "There’s
more in the Sunday Gospel than meets the eye” . Listen: Gospel Jn 20:1-9
On
the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while
it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and
went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them,
“They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put
him.” So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both
ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first;
he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon
Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there,
and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled
up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had
arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. For they did not yet understand
the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead.