and sat down there on guard.

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."

"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.

His trust is in God: let God deliver him now, if He will have him; for he said, 'I am God's Son.'"

"The man is calling for Elijah," said some of the bystanders.

while the rest said, "Let us see whether Elijah is coming to deliver him."

"Sir," they said, "we recollect that during his lifetime that impostor pretended that after two days he was to rise to life again.

"You can have a guard," said Pilate: "go and make all safe, as best you can."

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.

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.

Then He said, "Dismiss all fear! Go and take word to my brethren to go into Galilee, and there they shall see me."

Jesus however came near and said to them, "All power in Heaven and over the earth has been given to me.