027:040 and said, "You who would pull down the Sanctuary and build a new
one within three days, save yourself. If you are God's Son,
come down from the cross."
027:041 In like manner the High Priests also, together with the Scribes
and the Elders, taunted Him.
027:042 "He saved others," they said, "himself he cannot save!
He is the King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross,
and we will believe in him.
027:043 His trust is in God: let God deliver him now, if He will have him;
for he said, `I am God's Son.'"
027:044 Insults of the same kind were heaped on Him even by the robbers
who were being crucified with Him.
027:045 Now from noon until three o'clock in the afternoon there was
darkness over the whole land;
027:046 but about three o'clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice,
"Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is to say, "My God, My God,
why hast Thou forsaken me?"
027:047 "The man is calling for Elijah," said some of the bystanders.
027:048 One of them ran forthwith, and filling a sponge with sour wine
put it on the end of a cane and offered it Him to drink;
027:049 while the rest said, "Let us see whether Elijah is coming
to deliver him."
027:050 But Jesus uttered another loud cry and then yielded up His spirit.
027:051 Immediately the curtain of the Sanctuary was torn in two from
top to bottom: the earth quaked; the rocks split;
027:052 the tombs opened; and many of God's people who were asleep
in death awoke.
027:053 And coming out of their tombs after Christ's resurrection they
entered the holy city and showed themselves to many.
027:054 As for the Captain and the soldiers who were with Him keeping
guard over Jesus, when they witnessed the earthquake
and the other occurrences they were filled with terror,
and exclaimed, "Assuredly he was God's Son."
027:055 And there were a number of women there looking on from
a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee ministering
to His necessities;
027:056 among them being Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James
and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zabdi.
027:057 Towards sunset there came a wealthy inhabitant of Arimathaea,
named Joseph, who himself also had become a disciple of Jesus.
027:058 He went to Pilate and begged to have the body of Jesus,
and Pilate ordered it to be given to him.
027:059 So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean sheet
of fine linen.
027:060 He then laid it in his own new tomb which he had hewn in the
solid rock, and after rolling a great stone against the door
of the tomb he went home.
027:061 Mary of Magdala and the other Mary were both present there,
sitting opposite to the sepulchre.
027:062 On the next day, the day after the Preparation, the High Priests
and the Pharisees came in a body to Pilate.
027:063 "Sir," they said, "we recollect that during his lifetime
that impostor pretended that after two days he was to rise
to life again.
027:064 So give orders for the sepulchre to be securely guarded till
the third day, for fear his disciples should come by night
and steal the body, and then tell the people that he has come
back to life; and so the last imposture will be more serious
than the first."
027:065 "You can have a guard," said Pilate: "go and make all safe,
as best you can."
027:066 So they went and made the sepulchre secure, sealing the stone
besides setting the guard.
028:001 After the Sabbath, in the early dawn of the first day of the week,
Mary of Magdala and the other Mary came to see the sepulchre.
028:002 But to their amazement there had been a great earthquake;
for an angel of the Lord had descended from Heaven, and had
come and rolled back the stone, and was sitting upon it.
028:003 His appearance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.
028:004 For fear of him the guards trembled violently, and became
like dead men.
028:005 But the angel said to the women, "As for you, dismiss your fears.
I know that it is Jesus that you are looking for--
the crucified One.
028:006 He is not here: He has come back to life, as He foretold.
Come and see the place where He lay.
028:007 And go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen
from the dead and is going before you into Galilee:
there you shall see Him. Remember, I have told you."
028:008 They quickly left the tomb and ran, still terrified but full
of unspeakable joy, to carry the news to His disciples.
028:009 And then suddenly they saw Jesus coming to meet them.
"Peace be to you," He said. And they came and clasped His feet,
bowing to the ground before Him.
028:010 Then He said, "Dismiss all fear! Go and take word to my brethren
to go into Galilee, and there they shall see me."
028:011 While they went on this errand, some of the guards came
into the city and reported to the High Priests every detail
of what had happened.
028:012 So the latter held a conference with the Elders, and after
consultation with them they heavily bribed the soldiers,
028:013 telling them to say, "His disciples came during the night
and stole his body while we were asleep."
028:014 "And if this," they added, "is reported to the Governor,
we will satisfy him and screen you from punishment."
028:015 So they took the money and did as they were instructed;
and this story was noised about among the Jews, and is current
to this day.
028:016 As for the eleven disciples, they proceeded into Galilee,
to the hill where Jesus had arranged to meet them.
028:017 There they saw Him and prostrated themselves before Him.
Yet some doubted.
028:018 Jesus however came near and said to them, "All power in Heaven
and over the earth has been given to me.
028:019 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations;
baptize them into the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit;
028:020 and teach them to obey every command which I have given you.
And remember, I am with you always, day by day, until the Close
of the Age."