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Then they said, "What further need do we have of testimony? For we have heard it ourselves from His own mouth."

And Herod with his soldiers, after treating Him with contempt and mocking Him, dressed Him in a bright robe and sent Him back to Pilate.

But Jesus was saying, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." And they cast lots, dividing up His garments among themselves.

And the people stood by, looking on. And even the rulers were scoffing at Him, saying, "He saved others; let Him save Himself if this is the Christ of God, His Chosen One."

And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit." Having said this, He breathed His last.

And all His acquaintances and the women who accompanied Him from Galilee were standing at a distance, watching these things.

Now the women, who had come with Him from Galilee, followed and beheld the tomb and how His body was laid.

And they remembered His words,

and not finding His body, they came, saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive.

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?"

And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet.

and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

And He led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up His hands, He blessed them.

He came to what was His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.

This One is He who comes after me, of whom I am not worthy to untie the strap of His sandal."

On the next day, John again was standing with two of his disciples,

He first *found his own brother Simon and *said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which translated means Christ).