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alive. And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not. Then said he unto them, "O fools, and slow " of heart to believe all that the prophets have "spoken! Ought not Christ to have suffered "these things, and to enter into his glory?" And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him: and he vanished out of their sight. And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? And they rose up

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• Dull of understanding, and slow to believe and comprehend what the prophets have foretold of the Messiah. ▸ Earnestly intreated him.

• Became invisible, and suddenly withdrew.

would first repair, as Mary Magdalene had before. And wherever the rest of the Apostles were to be found, unless the path towards their lodgings lay through the Gate of the Valley, which we have no reason to suppose; the company that first retired from the sepulchre could not meet the other advancing towards it.

the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.

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149. Jesus appears to the disciples, in the absence of Thomas.

AND as they thus spake, Jesus Place. himself stood in the midst of them, Jerusalem. and saith unto them, "Peace be unto you." But they were terrified and affighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And he said unto them, "Why are ye troubled? and "why do thoughts arise in your hearts? be"hold my hands and my feet, that it is I "myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit "hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have." And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, "Have ye here any meat?" And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honey comb. And he took it, and did eat before them. Then said Jesus to them again, "Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent " me, even so send I you." And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose

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soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto "them: and whose soever sins ye retain, they " are retained."

150. Jesus appears again to the disciples, Thomas being present.

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Between the

BUT Thomas, one of the twelve, A. D. 33. called Didymus, was not with them first and when Jesus came. The other diseighth day ciples therefore said unto him, We after the re- have seen the Lord. But he said surrection. unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand

Time. into his side, I will not believe. A. D. 33. And after eight days again his disThe eighth day after the ciples were within, and Thomas with resurrection. them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be unto you." Then saith he to Thomas, "Reach hither thy finger, and behold " my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and

* Or rather I shall not believe.

The Sunday after the resurrection, or first day of the following week, which was then probably dedicated by the college of the Apostles to the worship and service of God under the Christian dispensation.

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"thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, " but believing." And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, "Thomas, because thou hast "seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are "they that have not seen, and yet have be"lieved." And he upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

151. The eleven disciples go into Galilee. Jesus manifests himself there at various times to his Disciples.

Time. THEN the eleven disci- Place. A. D. 33 ples went away into Galilee, Galilee. Between the into a mountain where Jesus had apeighth and fortieth day pointed them. And when they saw after the him, they worshipped him: but some resurrection.doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, "All power is given unto " me in heaven and in earth."

After these things Jesus shewed Place. himself again to his disciples at the The Sea of sea of Tiberias; and on this wise Tiberias.

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shewed he himself. There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples. Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing. But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore; but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. Then Jesus saith unto them, "Children, have ye any "meat?" They answered him, No. And he said unto them, "Cast the net on the right "side of the ship, and ye shall find." They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes. Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea. And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes. As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread. Jesus saith unto them, "Bring of the fish which ye "have now caught." Simon Peter went up, and

a Supposed to be the same as Bartholomew. b Young men.

St. John' the Evangelist.

The Jews were said to be naked when they wore only their inner garment.