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then they came to Jesus, and finding that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

and again the scripture saith elsewhere , "they shall look on him whom they pierced."

they took therefore the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, according to the manner of burial among the Jews.

upon this she went in great haste to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, they have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.

they both set out together: but the other disciple out-ran Peter, and came first to the cave,

and they said to her, woman, why do you weep? "because, said she, they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him."

and when he had so said, he show'd them his hands and his side. the disciples were therefore extremely glad when they saw it was the Lord.

whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye leave unpardoned, they are lest unpardoned."

Jesus said to him, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed.

when Simon Peter said to them, I am going a fishing. they reply'd, we likewise will go with you. so they departed and went on board a vessel,; but that night they caught nothing.

they answered him, no. and he said to them, cast the net on the right side of the vessel, and ye shall find. so they cast it, and it was so full of fish they were not able to draw it.

assoon as they were come to land, they saw fish frying upon a fire of coals there, and bread.

to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, of which they had many proofs, during the forty days he appear'd to them, and inform'd them about the reign of the Messias:

After this discourse, while they beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

and as they were looking stedfastly toward heaven, as he mounted up, on a sudden, two men appear'd before them robed in white, who said,

When they were arrived there, they went up into an upper room, where Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zelot, and Judas the brother of James used to resort,

accordingly they presented two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was sirnamed Justus, and Matthias. and they prayed,

and they were all filled with the holy ghost, and began to speak in different languages, as the spirit gave them utterance.

struck with astonishment and admiration, they said to one another, are not these men who are speaking, all Galileans?

and they were all amazed, and perplex'd, saying one to another, what can the meaning of this be?