New TestamentBeginner II · Story 13Mark 15:42-16:8

Who Will Roll the Stone?

Joseph of Arimathea asks Pilate for the body of Jesus and lays him in a tomb, and a big stone is put against it. Very early, three women come to the tomb and ask who will roll away the stone. They find it rolled back, and a young man speaks to them. Then they run away and say nothing.

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Three women in long plain robes walk toward a tomb cut into a rocky hillside at sunrise

The words in this story

4 words you will really use: they appear in the story and in the exercises, and come back for review in the next stories.

sun
the round light in the sky that gives light and heat in the day
noun
back
to the place where something or someone was before; ‘rolled back’ means moved away from the place where it stood
adverb
right
on the side that is opposite the left
adjective
amazed
very surprised by something
adjective

What you'll discover

The moments of the story, in the order they happen.

Joseph of Arimathea asks Pilate for the body of Jesus, and Pilate gives it to Joseph of Arimathea.
Very early, the women come to the tomb and see that the stone is rolled back.
A young man in a white robe is in the tomb, and he says, “He is not here.”
The women run away from the tomb and say nothing to anyone, for they are afraid.

Original verse

The verse that closes the story, in the World English Bible. After 4 lessons, this is how you read it: the real text, with nothing simplified.

Mark 16:6 · WEB

He said to them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him!

Context

One detail about the scene, with the work it comes from.

Who

Who was Joseph of Arimathea? The Tyndale Open Study Notes on Mark 15:43-45 say that he was an honored member of the high council.

Source: Tyndale Open Study Notes · CC BY-SA 4.0

What a story looks like

First the whole story, in simple English with audio for every sentence. Then 4 short lessons, each with a piece of the story, a tip and exercises. At the end, the Bible verse and a little celebration.

The story · 23 sentences, with the meaning of each word on tap, 3 quick questions about the story
4 lessons · a piece of the story, a tip and exercises in each one
The original verse · the Bible text, unadapted, then the next story

Questions about this story

Which Bible passage is this story from?

Mark 15:42 to 16:8, in the World English Bible: from the evening when Joseph of Arimathea asks Pilate for the body to the women at the tomb.

What does Joseph of Arimathea ask Pilate for?

Mark 15:43 says that Joseph of Arimathea went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.

What do the women say to each other?

Mark 16:3 says that they were saying among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”

What do the women see when they look up?

Mark 16:4 says that the stone was very big and that, looking up, they saw that it was rolled back.

What does the young man in the white robe say?

Mark 16:6 says that he said to them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him!”

What do the women do at the end?

Mark 16:8 says that they went out and fled from the tomb, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

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