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command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.'

and his countenance was as lightning, and his clothing white as snow,

and having gone quickly, say ye to his disciples, that he rose from the dead; and lo, he doth go before you to Galilee, there ye shall see him; lo, I have told you.'

And having gone forth quickly from the tomb, with fear and great joy, they ran to tell to his disciples;

and as they were going to tell to his disciples, then lo, Jesus met them, saying, `Hail!' and they having come near, laid hold of his feet, and did bow to him.

saying, `Say ye, that his disciples having come by night, stole him -- we being asleep;

`A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye his paths,' --

And John was clothed with camel's hair, and a girdle of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and honey of the field,

and he proclaimed, saying, `He doth come -- who is mightier than I -- after me, of whom I am not worthy -- having stooped down -- to loose the latchet of his sandals;

And, walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew his brother, casting a drag into the sea, for they were fishers,

And having gone on thence a little, he saw James of Zebedee, and John his brother, and they were in the boat refitting the nets,

and they were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

And immediately Jesus, having known in his spirit that they thus reason in themselves, said to them, `Why these things reason ye in your hearts?

And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) in his house, that many tax-gatherers and sinners were reclining (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax-gatherers and sinners, said to his disciples, `Why -- that with the tax-gatherers and sinners he doth eat and drink?'

And it came to pass -- he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields -- and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,

And having looked round upon them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their heart, he saith to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand;' and he stretched forth, and his hand was restored whole as the other;

And Jesus withdrew with his disciples unto the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judea,

And he said to his disciples that a little boat may wait on him, because of the multitude, that they may not press upon him,

and his friends having heard, went forth to lay hold on him, for they said that he was beside himself,