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Jesus, when he had cried with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And behold the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened: and many bodies of the saints which slept, arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Now when the centurion and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God."

When Jesus was dead, a good and just man, named Joseph of Arimathea, came to Pilate, and begged his body. "He took it down and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on: And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments and rested the sabbath day, according to the commandment."

"Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, Mary Magdalen and the other Mary

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came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre: And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold! two men stood by them, in shining garments: And as they were afraid and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, "Why seek Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you, when he was yet in Galilee, saying, The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again." And the women remembered his words, and returned from the sepulchre, "and told all these things unto the eleven and to all the rest." "It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which. told these things unto the apostles."

On the evening of the same day, when the disciples were assembled together, the door being shut from fear of the Jews, Jesus appeared in the midst of them, and said, "Peace be unto you." His disciples were much astonished, and rejoiced exceed

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ingly however, Thomas, one of the apostles who happened not to be present at the time, refused to believe that they had seen the Lord. He said, "Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side (for one of the soldiers had thrust his spear into the side of Jesus, whilst he was upon the cross), I will not believe."

A few days after this, Christ appeared to them again, and said to Thomas, "Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side, and be not faithless but believing."

Before he left them, Jesus said, "Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. For John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence." "Ye shall receive

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power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their

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