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And a great many Jews read this tablet, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew* and in Greek and in Roman.

So they said one to another, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose lot it shall be. And the scripture was fulfilled, which said, They divided my clothes among them, and for my robe they cast lots. These things the soldiers did.

Now because it was Friday the Jews said, Let not these bodies remain on their crosses because the sabbath is dawning; for that sabbath was a great day. So they besought Pilate to have the legs of those who were crucified broken, and to have them lowered down.

For these things happened that the scripture might be fulfilled, which said, Not even a bone shall be broken in him;

For they did yet not understand from the scripture, that he had to rise from the dead.

Jesus said to her, Do not come near me; for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.

When it was evening on that first day of the week, and the doors were shut where the disciples were staying for fear of the Jews, Jesus came, stood among them, and said to them, Peace be with you.

But the other disciples came by boat; for they were not very far from land, but about a hundred yards, and they were dragging the net of fishes.

Jesus said to them, Come, break your fast. But not one of the disciples dared to ask him who he was, for they knew he was our Lord.

Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to tie up your girdle yourself, and walk wherever you pleased; but when you become old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will tie up for you your girdle, and take you where you do not wish.

And as he ate bread with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the Father, the one of whom you have heard from me.

For John baptized with water; but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence.

He said to them, It is not for you to know the time or times, which the Father has put under his own authority.

For he was numbered with us and had a lot # in this ministry.

He is the one who earned for himself a field with the price of sin; and falling headlong, he burst open in the midst and all his bowels gushed out.

For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no one dwell in it; and let his duty be taken by another man.

For these men are not drunken as you suppose for behold it is but the third hour of the day. *

The very one who was chosen for this purpose from the very beginning of knowledge and will of God, you have delivered into the hands of wicked men, and you have crucified and murdered him:

Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible for the grave to hold him.

For David said concerning him, I foresaw my Lord always, for he is on my right hand, so that I should not be shaken: