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 Jesus said to her: "Do not touch Me, for I am not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them: I ascend to My Father and to your Father, to My God and to your God."

Mary Magdalen went and told the disciples, who were mourning and weeping:

"I have seen the Lord and these things He said to me."

And they, hearing that He was alive and had been seen by her, did not believe.

Her two companions were on their way to Jerusalem to deliver the Angel's message, when Jesus met them, saying:

"All hail!"

And they came up and took hold of His feet and adored Him.

And Jesus said to them: "Fear not, go tell My brethren that they go into Galilee, there they shall see Me."

But Magdalen's radiant face and joyful words: "I have seen the Lord," and the assurances of her companions that they had kissed His feet, failed to cheer the disciples. Only the women had seen Him, they said, and who could believe such idle tales as theirs!

Two of them were so weighed down with sorrow that they left Jerusalem in the afternoon to go to a little village called Emmaus. As they went they talked over all that had happened since Friday, but stopped short on finding that a stranger had suddenly joined them. He saw they were in trouble and said kindly:

"What are these discourses that you hold one with another as you walk, and are sad?"

One of them, whose name was Cleophas, answered: