and laid it in a new tomb that belonged to him, that he had cut in the rock, and he rolled a great stone over the doorway of the tomb, and went away.

And Mary of Magdala and the other Mary remained there, sitting before the tomb.

Give orders, therefore, to have the tomb closely guarded till the third day, so that his disciples cannot come and steal him, and then tell the people that he is risen from the dead, and that delusion be worse than the other was."

After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

And they hurried away from the tomb frightened and yet overjoyed, and ran to tell the news to his disciples.

When his disciples heard of it they came and took his body away and put it in a tomb.

And he bought a linen sheet and took him down from the cross and wrapped him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the doorway of the tomb.

Then very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb, when the sun had just risen.

And they said to one another, "Who will roll the stone back from the doorway of the tomb for us?"

And when they went into the tomb they saw a young man in a white robe sitting at the right, and they were utterly amazed.

And they fled out of the tomb, for they were all trembling and bewildered, and they said nothing about it to anyone, for they were afraid to do so. AN ANCIENT APPENDIX But they reported briefly to Peter and his companions all they had been told. And afterward Jesus himself sent out by them from the east to the west the sacred and incorruptible message of eternal salvation. \b ANOTHER ANCIENT APPENDIX

Then he took it down from the cross and wrapped it in linen and laid it in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no one had yet been laid.

The women who had followed Jesus from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was put there.

but on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking spices they had prepared.

But they found the stone rolled back from the tomb,

and they went back from the tomb and told all this to the eleven and all the rest.

But some women of our number have astounded us. They went to the tomb early this morning

Then some of our party went to the tomb and found things just as the women had said, but they did not see him."

The Jews who were sitting with her in the house, condoling with her, when they saw Mary spring up and go out, supposed that she was going to weep at the tomb, and followed her.

Again repressing a groan, Jesus went to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid against the mouth of it.

The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was telling about it.

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.

So because it was the Jewish Preparation day, and the tomb was close by, they put Jesus there.

On the day after the Sabbath, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from it.

So she ran away and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple who was dear to Jesus, and said to them, "They have taken the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him."

So Peter and the other disciple went out of the city and started for the tomb.

And they both ran, and the other disciple ran faster than Peter and got to the tomb first.

Then Simon Peter came up behind him, and he went inside the tomb, and saw the bandages lying on the ground,

Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first went inside too, and saw and was convinced.

But Mary stood just outside the tomb, weeping. And as she wept she looked down into the tomb,

and they were carried back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

When they had carried out everything that had been said about him in the Scriptures, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb.