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Now on the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the aromatic spices they had prepared.
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They found that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb,
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but when they went in, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
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While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men stood beside them in dazzling attire.
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The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?
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He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,
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that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.”
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Then the women remembered his words,
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and when they returned from the tomb, they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.
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Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles.
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But these words seemed like pure nonsense to them, and they did not believe them.
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But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. He bent down and saw only the strips of linen cloth; then he went home, wondering what had happened.
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Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.”
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Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,
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and said to them, “Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,
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and repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
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You are witnesses of these things.
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And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
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Then Jesus led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he blessed them.
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Now during the blessing he departed and was taken up into heaven.
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So they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
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and were continually in the temple courts blessing God.