Part 30

019:027 Then He said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that time the disciple received her into his own home.

019:028 After this, Jesus, knowing that everything was now brought to an end, said--that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "I am thirsty."

019:029 There was a jar of wine standing there. With this wine they filled a sponge, put it on the end of a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.

019:030 As soon as Jesus had taken the wine, He said, "It is finished." And then, bowing His head, He yielded up His spirit.

019:031 Meanwhile the Jews, because it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and in order that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was one of special solemnity), requested Pilate to have the legs of the dying men broken, and the bodies removed.

019:032 Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and also of the other who had been crucified with Jesus.

019:033 Then they came to Jesus Himself: but when they saw that He was already dead, they refrained from breaking His legs.

019:034 One of the soldiers, however, made a thrust at His side with a lance, and immediately blood and water flowed out.

019:035 This statement is the testimony of an eye-witness, and it is true. He knows that he is telling the truth--in order that you also may believe.

019:036 For all this took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled which declares, "Not one of His bones shall be broken."

019:037 And again another Scripture says, "They shall look on Him whom they have pierced."

019:038 After this, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but for fear of the Jews a secret disciple, asked Pilate's permission to carry away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and removed the body.

019:039 Nicodemus too--he who at first had visited Jesus by night-- came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, in weight about seventy or eighty pounds.

019:040 Taking down the body they wrapped it in linen cloths along with the spices, in accordance with the Jewish mode of preparing for burial.

019:041 There was a garden at the place where Jesus had been crucified, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried.

019:042 Therefore, because it was the day of Preparation for the Jewish Passover, and the tomb was close at hand, they put Jesus there.

020:001 On the first day of the week, very early, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from it.

020:002 So she ran, as fast as she could, to find Simon Peter and the other disciple--the one who was dear to Jesus-- and to tell them, "They have taken the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put Him."

020:003 Peter and the other disciple started at once to go to the tomb, both of them running,

020:004 but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached it before he did.

020:005 Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying there on the ground, but he did not go in.

020:006 Simon Peter, however, also came, following him, and entered the tomb. There on the ground he saw the cloths;

020:007 and the towel, which had been placed over the face of Jesus, not lying with the cloths, but folded up and put by itself.

020:008 Then the other disciple, who had been the first to come to the tomb, also went in and saw and was convinced.

020:009 For until now they had not understood the inspired teaching, that He must rise again from among the dead.

020:010 Then they went away and returned home.

020:011 Meanwhile Mary remained standing near the tomb, weeping aloud. She did not enter the tomb, but as she wept she stooped and looked in,

020:012 and saw two angels clothed in white raiment, sitting one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been.