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Jesus said to them: Is it not on this account that ye err, because ye understand not the scriptures, nor the power of God?

But concerning the dead, that they rise, have ye not read in a book of Moses, how God said to him from the bush: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Ye, therefore, do err greatly.

Jesus said to him: The first of all the commandments [fn] : Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord:

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy might. This is the first commandment.

And Jesus perceived that he replied wisely; and he answered, and said to him: Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no one dared again to question him.

For in those days will be affliction, such as hath not been from the beginning of the creation that God made until now, and shall not be.

And, unless God should shorten those days, no flesh would live. But, on account of the elect whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened those days.

Verily I say to you, That I will not drink again of the product of the vine, until the day in which I shall drink it anew in the kingdom of God.

And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, and said: Il, Il, lemono shebakthone; that is: My God, my God; why hast thou forsaken me?

And when the centurion, who was standing near him, saw that he so cried and expired, he said: Verily, this was the Son of God.

Joseph of Ramath, an honorable counsellor, who also himself waited for the kingdom of God, came, and assuming courage, went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.

And Jesus, our Lord, after he had conversed with them, ascended to heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

And they were both upright before God, and walked in all his commandments, and in the righteousness of the Lord, without reproach.

And many of the children of Israel will he convert to the Lord their God.

The angel answered, and said to him: I am Gabriel, who stand before God; and I am sent to converse with thee, and to tell thee these things.

And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God into Galilee, to a city named Nazareth,

And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary; for thou hast found favor with God.

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.

The angel replied, and said to her: The Holy Spirit will come, and the power of the Most High will overshadow thee; therefore he that is born of thee is holy, and will be called the Son of God.