So Herod and Pilate became personal friends that very day; they had been at enmity before.

said to them, You have brought me this man as one that perverts the people; and behold, having had an examination before you, I have found in this man no cause for the charges which you bring against him,

for the sun had failed to shine. And the curtain before the sanctuary was torn in two.

And took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a hewn tomb, wherein was never man before laid.

It was the Preparation Day, and just before the Sabbath began.

whilst they were in great perplexity about it, all of a sudden, two men appear'd before them in robes of light.

[He is not here; but he has risen.] Remember how he spoke to you before he left Galilee--

And these sayings appeared before them, as if idle talk, and they were minded to disbelieve them.

And he said to them, Of what sort? and they said to him, Those which relate to Jesus the Nazarean, who was a man, a prophet, mighty in word and deed before God and all the people:

They answered him, "The events involving Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in what he said and did before God and all the people, and how our high priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and had him crucified.

But we were hoping that it was He who was about to ransom Israel. Yes, and moreover it was the day before yesterday that these things happened.

Was not the Christ bound to undergo this suffering before entering upon his Glory?"

and He took it and ate it before their eyes.

They [bowed to the ground before him and] returned to Jerusalem full of joy;