, he wrapped him in fine linen and laid him in
a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been
laid.
23:54. And it was the day of the Parasceve: and the sabbath drew on.
Parasceve... That is, the eve, or day of preparation for the sabbath.
23:55. And the women that were come with him from Galilee, following
after, saw the sepulchre and how his body was laid.
23:56. And returning, they prepared spices and ointments: and on the
sabbath day they rested, according to the commandment.
Luke Chapter 24
Christ's resurrection and manifestation of himself to his disciples.
24:1. And on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they
came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared.
24:2. And they found the stone rolled back from the sepulchre.
24:3. And going in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
24:4. And it came to pass, as they were astonished in their mind at
this, behold, two men stood by them, in shining apparel.
24:5. And as they were afraid and bowed down their countenance towards
the ground, they said unto them: Why seek you the living with the dead?
24:6. He is not here, but is risen. Remember how he spoke unto you, when
he was yet in Galilee,
24:7. Saying: The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful
men and be crucified and the third day rise again.
24:8. And they remembered his words.
24:9. And going back from the sepulchre, they told all these things to
the eleven and to all the rest.
24:10. And it was Mary Magdalen and Joanna and Mary of James and the
other women that were with them, who told these things to the apostles.
24:11. And these words seemed to them as idle tales: and they did not
believe them.
24:12. But Peter rising up, ran to the sepulchre and, stooping down, he
saw the linen cloths laid by themselves: and went away wondering in
himself at that which was come to pass.
24:13. And behold, two of them went, the same day, to a town which was
sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, named Emmaus.
24:14. And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
24:15. And it came to pass that while they talked and reasoned with
themselves, Jesus himself also, drawing near, went with them.
24:16. But their eyes were held, that they should not know him.
24:17. And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one
with another as you walk and are sad?
24:18. And the one of them,
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