The King rises from the dead
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📚✭After the Sabbath✭, as dawn was breaking on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary✭ came to see the tomb. 2 📚And, suddenly, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord✭ descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat on it. 3 📚His appearance was like lightning, and his garment as white as snow. 4 📚✭And from fear of him the guards shook and became like dead men.5 📚✭And the angel responded and said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. 6 📚✭He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. 7 📚✭And go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead, and now he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him. See, I have told you”.
The King appears to His believers and instructs His disciples
8 📚✭And they hurried away from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to take word to his disciples. 9 📚And as they were going to tell his disciples, suddenly Jesus met them, saying, “Greetings”. And they came to him and clasped his feet and worshipped him.
10 📚✭Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go tell my brethren that they should go to Galilee, and that they will see me there”.
11 📚✭While the women were going, some of the guard appeared, coming into the city. And they reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. 12 📚And when they had met with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, 13 📚✭saying, “Say that his disciples came at night, and stole him away while we were sleeping. 14 📚And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will satisfy him, and make your situation safe”.
15 📚So they took the money, and did as they were instructed. And this story has been spreading among the Jews to this very day.
16 📚✭Then the eleven disciples went away to Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. 17 📚And when they saw him, they worshipped him✭; but some doubted✭. 18 📚And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All power✭ is given to me in heaven and on earth. 19 📚✭Go therefore, and make disciples✭ of all nations,✭ baptizing them in✭ the name✭ of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, 20 📚teaching them✭ to observe everything that I have commanded you. And see, I am with you✭ always, even to the end of the age”. Amen.