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The First Glorious Mystery The Resurrection

CHAPTER 1

Christ's Resurrection

                                And behold, on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, there was a great earthquake
 For an angel of the
                        Lord descended from Heaven, and coming, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it. And his
                                    countenance was as lightning, and his raiment as snow. And for fear of him, the guards were struck
with terror, and became as dead men.

                                And behold some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all things that had
                                        been done. And they being assembled together with the ancients, taking counsel, gave a great sum of
                                money to the soldiers, saying: "Say you, 'His disciples came by night, and stole Him away when we
were asleep: And if the governor shall hear
of this, we will persuade him, and secure you." So they, taking the
                                    money, did as they were taught, and this word was spread abroad among the Jews even unto this day.

                                    But Mary Magdalen came early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher; and she saw the stone taken
                                away from the sepulcher. She ran, therefore, and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple
                                whom Jesus loved, and said to them: "They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher, and we
know not where they have laid Him."

                                Peter therefore went out, and that other disciple, and they came to the sepulcher. And they both
                                ran together, and that other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulcher. And when
        he stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying; but yet he went not in.

                                Then came Simon Peter, following him, and went into the sepulcher, and saw the linen cloths lying,
and the napkin that had been about His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but apart, wrapped up
into one place. Then that other disciple also went in, who came first to the sepulcher, and he
saw, and believed. For as yet they
knew not the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.