8. Then they went out and fled from the tomb, seized with trembling and bewilderment. They said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. [
9. When he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons.
10. She went and told his companions who were mourning and weeping.
11. When they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.
12. After this he appeared in another form to two of them walking along on their way to the country.
13. They returned and told the others; but they did not believe them either.
14. [But] later, as the eleven were at table, he appeared to them and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart because they had not believed those who saw him after he had been raised.
15. He said to them, “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.
16. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.
17. These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages.
18. They will pick up serpents [with their hands], and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
19. So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.
20. But they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through accompanying signs.][And they reported all the instructions briefly to Peter’s companions. Afterwards Jesus himself, through them, sent forth from east to west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation. Amen.]