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After consulting together they bought the Potter's Field with it, as a burial place for foreigners.

For this reason that field has been called the "Field of Blood" to this day.

and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."

So after they had assembled, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you, Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Christ?"

(For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy.)

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.

The governor asked them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" And they said, "Barabbas!"

Then he released Barabbas for them. But after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.

When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, "This man is calling for Elijah."

He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.

But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

He is not here, for he has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.

the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘ Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight. '"

In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

As he went along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, Simon's brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen).

Simon and his companions searched for him.

When they found him, they said, "Everyone is looking for you."

He replied, "Let us go elsewhere, into the surrounding villages, so that I can preach there too. For that is what I came out here to do."

Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. "If you are willing, you can make me clean," he said.