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Mark chapter 13

1
As Jesus was leaving the Temple, one of his disciples said, "Look, Teacher! What wonderful stones and buildings!"
2
Jesus answered, "You see these great buildings? Not a single stone here will be left in its place; every one of them will be thrown down."
3
Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, across from the Temple, when Peter, James, John, and Andrew came to him in private.
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"Tell us when this will be," they said, "and tell us what will happen to show that the time has come for all these things to take place."
5
Jesus said to them, "Watch out, and don't let anyone fool you.
6
Many men, claiming to speak for me, will come and say, 'I am he!' and they will fool many people.
7
And don't be troubled when you hear the noise of battles close by and news of battles far away. Such things must happen, but they do not mean that the end has come.
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Countries will fight each other; kingdoms will attack one another. There will be earthquakes everywhere, and there will be famines. These things are like the first pains of childbirth.
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"You yourselves must watch out. You will be arrested and taken to court. You will be beaten in the synagogues; you will stand before rulers and kings for my sake to tell them the Good News.
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But before the end comes, the gospel must be preached to all peoples.
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And when you are arrested and taken to court, do not worry ahead of time about what you are going to say; when the time comes, say whatever is then given to you. For the words you speak will not be yours; they will come from the Holy Spirit.
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Men will hand over their own brothers to be put to death, and fathers will do the same to their children. Children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.
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Everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.
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"You will see 'The Awful Horror' standing in the place where he should not be." (Note to the reader: understand what this means!) "Then those who are in Judea must run away to the hills.
15
Someone who is on the roof of a house must not lose time by going down into the house to get anything to take along.
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Someone who is in the field must not go back to the house for a cloak.
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How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies!
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Pray to God that these things will not happen in the winter!
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For the trouble of those days will be far worse than any the world has ever known from the very beginning when God created the world until the present time. Nor will there ever be anything like it again.
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But the Lord has reduced the number of those days; if he had not, nobody would survive. For the sake of his chosen people, however, he has reduced those days.
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"Then, if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or, 'Look, there he is!'---do not believe it.
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For false Messiahs and false prophets will appear. They will perform miracles and wonders in order to deceive even God's chosen people, if possible.
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Be on your guard! I have told you everything ahead of time.
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"In the days after that time of trouble the sun will grow dark, the moon will no longer shine,
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the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers in space will be driven from their courses.
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Then the Son of Man will appear, coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
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He will send the angels out to the four corners of the earth to gather God's chosen people from one end of the world to the other.
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"Let the fig tree teach you a lesson. When its branches become green and tender and it starts putting out leaves, you know that summer is near.
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In the same way, when you see these things happening, you will know that the time is near, ready to begin.
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Remember that all these things will happen before the people now living have all died.
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Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
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"No one knows, however, when that day or hour will come---neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son; only the Father knows.
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Be on watch, be alert, for you do not know when the time will come.
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It will be like a man who goes away from home on a trip and leaves his servants in charge, after giving to each one his own work to do and after telling the doorkeeper to keep watch.
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Watch, then, because you do not know when the master of the house is coming---it might be in the evening or at midnight or before dawn or at sunrise.
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If he comes suddenly, he must not find you asleep.
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What I say to you, then, I say to all: Watch!"

Mark chapter 14

1
It was now two days before the Festival of Passover and Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the teachers of the Law were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and put him to death.
2
"We must not do it during the festival," they said, "or the people might riot."
3
Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, a man who had suffered from a dreaded skin disease. While Jesus was eating, a woman came in with an alabaster jar full of a very expensive perfume made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on Jesus' head.
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Some of the people there became angry and said to one another, "What was the use of wasting the perfume?
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It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!" And they criticized her harshly.
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But Jesus said, "Leave her alone! Why are you bothering her? She has done a fine and beautiful thing for me.
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You will always have poor people with you, and any time you want to, you can help them. But you will not always have me.
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She did what she could; she poured perfume on my body to prepare it ahead of time for burial.
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Now, I assure you that wherever the gospel is preached all over the world, what she has done will be told in memory of her."
10
Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went off to the chief priests in order to betray Jesus to them.
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They were pleased to hear what he had to say, and promised to give him money. So Judas started looking for a good chance to hand Jesus over to them.
12
On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the day the lambs for the Passover meal were killed, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and get the Passover meal ready for you?"
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Then Jesus sent two of them with these instructions: "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him
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to the house he enters, and say to the owner of the house: 'The Teacher says, Where is the room where my disciples and I will eat the Passover meal?'
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Then he will show you a large upstairs room, fixed up and furnished, where you will get everything ready for us."
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The disciples left, went to the city, and found everything just as Jesus had told them; and they prepared the Passover meal.
17
When it was evening, Jesus came with the twelve disciples.
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While they were at the table eating, Jesus said, "I tell you that one of you will betray me---one who is eating with me."
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The disciples were upset and began to ask him, one after the other, "Surely you don't mean me, do you?"
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Jesus answered, "It will be one of you twelve, one who dips his bread in the dish with me.
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The Son of Man will die as the Scriptures say he will; but how terrible for that man who will betray the Son of Man! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!"
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While they were eating, Jesus took a piece of bread, gave a prayer of thanks, broke it, and gave it to his disciples. "Take it," he said, "this is my body."
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Then he took a cup, gave thanks to God, and handed it to them; and they all drank from it.
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Jesus said, "This is my blood which is poured out for many, my blood which seals God's covenant.
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I tell you, I will never again drink this wine until the day I drink the new wine in the Kingdom of God."
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Then they sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.
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Jesus said to them, "All of you will run away and leave me, for the scripture says, 'God will kill the shepherd, and the sheep will all be scattered.'
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But after I am raised to life, I will go to Galilee ahead of you."
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Peter answered, "I will never leave you, even though all the rest do!"
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Jesus said to Peter, "I tell you that before the rooster crows two times tonight, you will say three times that you do not know me."
31
Peter answered even more strongly, "I will never say that, even if I have to die with you!" And all the other disciples said the same thing.
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They came to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, "Sit here while I pray."
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He took Peter, James, and John with him. Distress and anguish came over him,
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and he said to them, "The sorrow in my heart is so great that it almost crushes me. Stay here and keep watch."
35
He went a little farther on, threw himself on the ground, and prayed that, if possible, he might not have to go through that time of suffering.
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"Father," he prayed, "my Father! All things are possible for you. Take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet not what I want, but what you want."
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Then he returned and found the three disciples asleep. He said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Weren't you able to stay awake for even one hour?"
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And he said to them, "Keep watch, and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
39
He went away once more and prayed, saying the same words.
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Then he came back to the disciples and found them asleep; they could not keep their eyes open. And they did not know what to say to him.
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When he came back the third time, he said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come! Look, the Son of Man is now being handed over to the power of sinners.
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Get up, let us go. Look, here is the man who is betraying me!"
43
Jesus was still speaking when Judas, one of the twelve disciples, arrived. With him was a crowd armed with swords and clubs and sent by the chief priests, the teachers of the Law, and the elders.
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The traitor had given the crowd a signal: "The man I kiss is the one you want. Arrest him and take him away under guard."
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As soon as Judas arrived, he went up to Jesus and said, "Teacher!" and kissed him.
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So they arrested Jesus and held him tight.
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But one of those standing there drew his sword and struck at the High Priest's slave, cutting off his ear.
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Then Jesus spoke up and said to them, "Did you have to come with swords and clubs to capture me, as though I were an outlaw?
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Day after day I was with you teaching in the Temple, and you did not arrest me. But the Scriptures must come true."
50
Then all the disciples left him and ran away.
51
A certain young man, dressed only in a linen cloth, was following Jesus. They tried to arrest him,
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but he ran away naked, leaving the cloth behind.
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Then Jesus was taken to the High Priest's house, where all the chief priests, the elders, and the teachers of the Law were gathering.
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Peter followed from a distance and went into the courtyard of the High Priest's house. There he sat down with the guards, keeping himself warm by the fire.
55
The chief priests and the whole Council tried to find some evidence against Jesus in order to put him to death, but they could not find any.
56
Many witnesses told lies against Jesus, but their stories did not agree.
57
Then some men stood up and told this lie against Jesus:
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"We heard him say, 'I will tear down this Temple which men have made, and after three days I will build one that is not made by men.' "
59
Not even they, however, could make their stories agree.
60
The High Priest stood up in front of them all and questioned Jesus, "Have you no answer to the accusation they bring against you?"
61
But Jesus kept quiet and would not say a word. Again the High Priest questioned him, "Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed God?"
62
"I am," answered Jesus, "and you will all see the Son of Man seated at the right side of the Almighty and coming with the clouds of heaven!"
63
The High Priest tore his robes and said, "We don't need any more witnesses!
64
You heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?" They all voted against him: he was guilty and should be put to death.
65
Some of them began to spit on Jesus, and they blindfolded him and hit him. "Guess who hit you!" they said. And the guards took him and slapped him.
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Peter was still down in the courtyard when one of the High Priest's servant women came by.
67
When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked straight at him and said, "You, too, were with Jesus of Nazareth."
68
But he denied it. "I don't know...I don't understand what you are talking about," he answered, and went out into the passageway. Just then a rooster crowed.
69
The servant woman saw him there and began to repeat to the bystanders, "He is one of them!"
70
But Peter denied it again. A little while later the bystanders accused Peter again, "You can't deny that you are one of them, because you, too, are from Galilee."
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Then Peter said, "I swear that I am telling the truth! May God punish me if I am not! I do not know the man you are talking about!"
72
Just then a rooster crowed a second time, and Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows two times, you will say three times that you do not know me." And he broke down and cried.

Mark chapter 15

1
Early in the morning the chief priests met hurriedly with the elders, the teachers of the Law, and the whole Council, and made their plans. They put Jesus in chains, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.
2
Pilate questioned him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus answered, "So you say."
3
The chief priests were accusing Jesus of many things,
4
so Pilate questioned him again, "Aren't you going to answer? Listen to all their accusations!"
5
Again Jesus refused to say a word, and Pilate was amazed.
6
At every Passover Festival Pilate was in the habit of setting free any one prisoner the people asked for.
7
At that time a man named Barabbas was in prison with the rebels who had committed murder in the riot.
8
When the crowd gathered and began to ask Pilate for the usual favor,
9
he asked them, "Do you want me to set free for you the king of the Jews?"
10
He knew very well that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him because they were jealous.
11
But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask, instead, that Pilate set Barabbas free for them.
12
Pilate spoke again to the crowd, "What, then, do you want me to do with the one you call the king of the Jews?"
13
They shouted back, "Crucify him!"
14
"But what crime has he committed?" Pilate asked. They shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
15
Pilate wanted to please the crowd, so he set Barabbas free for them. Then he had Jesus whipped and handed him over to be crucified.
16
The soldiers took Jesus inside to the courtyard of the governor's palace and called together the rest of the company.
17
They put a purple robe on Jesus, made a crown out of thorny branches, and put it on his head.
18
Then they began to salute him: "Long live the King of the Jews!"
19
They beat him over the head with a stick, spat on him, fell on their knees, and bowed down to him.
20
When they had finished making fun of him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
21
On the way they met a man named Simon, who was coming into the city from the country, and the soldiers forced him to carry Jesus' cross. (Simon was from Cyrene and was the father of Alexander and Rufus.)
22
They took Jesus to a place called Golgotha, which means "The Place of the Skull."
23
There they tried to give him wine mixed with a drug called myrrh, but Jesus would not drink it.
24
Then they crucified him and divided his clothes among themselves, throwing dice to see who would get which piece of clothing.
25
It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him.
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The notice of the accusation against him said: "The King of the Jews."
27
They also crucified two bandits with Jesus, one on his right and the other on his left.
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OMITTED TEXT
29
People passing by shook their heads and hurled insults at Jesus: "Aha! You were going to tear down the Temple and build it back up in three days!
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Now come down from the cross and save yourself !"
31
In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the Law made fun of Jesus, saying to one another, "He saved others, but he cannot save himself !
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Let us see the Messiah, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him!" And the two who were crucified with Jesus insulted him also.
33
At noon the whole country was covered with darkness, which lasted for three hours.
34
At three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud shout, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why did you abandon me?"
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Some of the people there heard him and said, "Listen, he is calling for Elijah!"
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One of them ran up with a sponge, soaked it in cheap wine, and put it on the end of a stick. Then he held it up to Jesus' lips and said, "Wait! Let us see if Elijah is coming to bring him down from the cross!"
37
With a loud cry Jesus died.
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The curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.
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The army officer who was standing there in front of the cross saw how Jesus had died. "This man was really the Son of God!" he said.
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Some women were there, looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of the younger James and of Joseph, and Salome.
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They had followed Jesus while he was in Galilee and had helped him. Many other women who had come to Jerusalem with him were there also.
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It was toward evening when Joseph of Arimathea arrived. He was a respected member of the Council, who was waiting for the coming of the Kingdom of God. It was Preparation day (that is, the day before the Sabbath), so Joseph went boldly into the presence of Pilate and asked him for the body of Jesus.
43
(SEE 15:42)
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Pilate was surprised to hear that Jesus was already dead. He called the army officer and asked him if Jesus had been dead a long time.
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After hearing the officer's report, Pilate told Joseph he could have the body.
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Joseph bought a linen sheet, took the body down, wrapped it in the sheet, and placed it in a tomb which had been dug out of solid rock. Then he rolled a large stone across the entrance to the tomb.
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Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph were watching and saw where the body of Jesus was placed.

Mark chapter 16

1
After the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint the body of Jesus.
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Very early on Sunday morning, at sunrise, they went to the tomb.
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On the way they said to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?" (It was a very large stone.) Then they looked up and saw that the stone had already been rolled back.
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(SEE 16:3)
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So they entered the tomb, where they saw a young man sitting at the right, wearing a white robe---and they were alarmed.
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"Don't be alarmed," he said. "I know you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is not here---he has been raised! Look, here is the place where he was placed.
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Now go and give this message to his disciples, including Peter: 'He is going to Galilee ahead of you; there you will see him, just as he told you.' "
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So they went out and ran from the tomb, distressed and terrified. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.
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[After Jesus rose from death early on Sunday, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.
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She went and told his companions. They were mourning and crying;
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and when they heard her say that Jesus was alive and that she had seen him, they did not believe her.
12
After this, Jesus appeared in a different manner to two of them while they were on their way to the country.
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They returned and told the others, but these would not believe it.
14
Last of all, Jesus appeared to the eleven disciples as they were eating. He scolded them, because they did not have faith and because they were too stubborn to believe those who had seen him alive.
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He said to them, "Go throughout the whole world and preach the gospel to all people.
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Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.
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Believers will be given the power to perform miracles: they will drive out demons in my name; they will speak in strange tongues;
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if they pick up snakes or drink any poison, they will not be harmed; they will place their hands on sick people, and these will get well."
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After the Lord Jesus had talked with them, he was taken up to heaven and sat at the right side of God.
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The disciples went and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and proved that their preaching was true by the miracles that were performed.]

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