PART IX.

OUR LORD'S RESURRECTION,

HIS SUBSEQUENT APPEARANCES,

AND

HIS ASCENSION.

TIME. Forty days.

159. The morning of the Resurrection.

MATTHEW.
CH. XXVIII. 2-4.

2 And behold, there was a great earthquake for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow. 4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.

MARK.

CH. XVI. 1.

AND when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

160. Visit of the women to the Sepulchre. Mary

§ 161. Vision of angels in the Sepulchre. CH. XXVIII. 5-7.

5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.

6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place. where the Lord lay.

CH. XVI. 5-7.

5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side clothed in a long white garment, and they were affrighted.

6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here behold the place where they laid him.

7 And go quickly, and tell his dis- 7 But go your way, tell his disciciples, that he is risen from the dead, ples and Peter, that he goeth before and behold, he goeth before you into you into Galilee: there shall ye see Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I him, as he said unto you. have told you.

2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.

3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

CH. XX. 1-2.

THE first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.

(FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.) Jerusalem. XXIV. 4-8.

4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.

5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

6 He is not here, but is risen. Remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,

7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.

8 And they remembered his words,

162. The women return to the city. Jesus meets them.

MATTHEW.

CH. XXVIII. 8-10.

MARK.
CH. XVI. 8.

8 And they departed quickly from 6 And they went out quickly, and the sepulchre, with fear and great fled from the sepulchre; for they joy; and did run to bring his disciples trembled, and were amazed: neither word. said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid. END

9 And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came, and held him by the feet, and worshipped

him.

10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid go tell my brethren, that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.

§ 163. Peter and John run to the Sepulchre.

§ 164. Our Lord is seen by Mary Magdalene at the

(FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.) Jerusalem.

LUKE.

CH. XXIV. 9-11.

9 And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.

10 It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.

11 And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.

JOHN.

(FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.) CH. XXIV. 12.

12 Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre, and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.

Jerusalem.

CH. XX. 3-10.

3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.

4 So they ran both together and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.

5 And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.

6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie;

7 And the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.

8 Then went in also that other disciple which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.

9 For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.

10 Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.

Sepulchre. (FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.) Jerusalem.