And at once the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split,

And the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two, from top to bottom.

He used this figure: "A man had a fig tree growing in his garden, and he went to look for fruit on it, and could not find any.

It is like a mustard seed that a man took and dropped in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the wild birds roosted on its branches."

as the sun was in eclipse. And the curtain before the sanctuary was torn in two.

When Jesus had said this, he went out with his disciples to the other side of the Ravine of the Cedars where there was a garden, and he went into it with his disciples.

One of the high priest's slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you with him in the garden?"

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

But they said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted that it was so. Then they said, "Then it is his guardian angel!"

At last the recorder quieted the mob and said, "Men of Ephesus, who in the world does not know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell down from the sky?

It was a Cretan, a prophet of their own, who said, "Cretans are always liars, savage brutes, lazy gluttons,"

This hope is like an anchor for our souls. It reaches up secure and strong into the sanctuary behind the heavenly curtain,

And beyond the second curtain, in the part called the inner sanctuary,

by the new, living way which he has opened for us, through the curtain, that is, his physical nature,

For you were astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

The secret meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold lampstands is this: The seven stars are the guardian angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.