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And Jesus said: Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they divided his garments, casting a lot upon them.

And there were standing at a distance, all they that knew Jesus, and those women who came with him from Galilee; and they beheld these things.

And they returned, and prepared perfumes and aromatics; and they rested on the sabbath, as it is commanded.

And on the first day of the week, in the morning, while it was yet dark, they came to the sepulchre, and brought the aromatics they had prepared. And there were other women with them.

And they found the stone rolled from the sepulchre.

And they entered, and found not the body of Jesus.

And as they wondered at this, behold, two men stood opposite them; and their raiment was effulgent.

And they were in fear, and bowed their faces to the ground. And the men said to them: Why seek ye the living among the dead?

And they remembered his words.

And they returned from the sepulchre, and related all these things to the eleven, and to the rest.

Now they were Mary Magdalena, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and the others with them, who related these things to the Legates.

And these words appeared in their eyes as dreams: and they believed them not.

And they talked together of all that had occurred.

And as they conversed, and questioned each other, Jesus came, and drew near, and walked with them.

And their eyes were held, that they did not recognize him.

He said to them: What things? They say to him: In regard to Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet, and mighty in discourse and in action, before God, and before all the people.

And moreover, certain women of ours astonished us; for they went early to the sepulchre;

and as they did not find the body, they came and said to us: We saw angels there, and they said that he is alive.

And also some of us went to the sepulchre; and they found, as the women reported; but him they saw not.

And they drew near to the village to which they were going; and he made them feel, as if he would go to a more distant place.