WHEN THE SABBATH WAS OVER, MARY MAGDALENE, MARY THE MOTHER OF JAMES, AND SALOME BOUGHT SPICES SO THAT THEY MIGHT GO TO ANOINT JESUS' BODY.
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VERY EARLY ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, JUST AFTER SUNRISE, THEY WERE ON THEIR WAY TO THE TOMB
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AND THEY ASKED EACH OTHER, 'WHO WILL ROLL THE STONE AWAY FROM THE ENTRANCE OF THE TOMB?'
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BUT WHEN THEY LOOKED UP, THEY SAW THAT THE STONE, WHICH WAS VERY LARGE, HAD BEEN ROLLED AWAY.
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AS THEY ENTERED THE TOMB, THEY SAW A YOUNG MAN DRESSED IN A WHITE ROBE SITTING ON THE RIGHT SIDE, AND THEY WERE ALARMED.
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DON'T BE ALARMED,' HE SAID. 'YOU ARE LOOKING FOR JESUS THE NAZARENE, WHO WAS CRUCIFIED. HE HAS RISEN! HE IS NOT HERE. SEE THE PLACE WHERE THEY LAID HIM.
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BUT GO, TELL HIS DISCIPLES AND PETER, 'HE IS GOING AHEAD OF YOU INTO GALILEE. THERE YOU WILL SEE HIM, JUST AS HE TOLD YOU.''
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TREMBLING AND BEWILDERED, THE WOMEN WENT OUT AND FLED FROM THE TOMB. THEY SAID NOTHING TO ANYONE, BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID.
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WHEN JESUS ROSE EARLY ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, HE APPEARED FIRST TO MARY MAGDALENE, OUT OF WHOM HE HAD DRIVEN SEVEN DEMONS.
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SHE WENT AND TOLD THOSE WHO HAD BEEN WITH HIM AND WHO WERE MOURNING AND WEEPING.
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WHEN THEY HEARD THAT JESUS WAS ALIVE AND THAT SHE HAD SEEN HIM, THEY DID NOT BELIEVE IT.
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AFTERWARD JESUS APPEARED IN A DIFFERENT FORM TO TWO OF THEM WHILE THEY WERE WALKING IN THE COUNTRY.
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THESE RETURNED AND REPORTED IT TO THE REST; BUT THEY DID NOT BELIEVE THEM EITHER.
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LATER JESUS APPEARED TO THE ELEVEN AS THEY WERE EATING; HE REBUKED THEM FOR THEIR LACK OF FAITH AND THEIR STUBBORN REFUSAL TO BELIEVE THOSE WHO HAD SEEN HIM AFTER HE HAD RISEN.
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HE SAID TO THEM, 'GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL CREATION.
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WHOEVER BELIEVES AND IS BAPTIZED WILL BE SAVED, BUT WHOEVER DOES NOT BELIEVE WILL BE CONDEMNED.
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AND THESE SIGNS WILL ACCOMPANY THOSE WHO BELIEVE: IN MY NAME THEY WILL DRIVE OUT DEMONS; THEY WILL SPEAK IN NEW TONGUES;
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THEY WILL PICK UP SNAKES WITH THEIR HANDS; AND WHEN THEY DRINK DEADLY POISON, IT WILL NOT HURT THEM AT ALL; THEY WILL PLACE THEIR HANDS ON SICK PEOPLE, AND THEY WILL GET WELL.'
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AFTER THE LORD JESUS HAD SPOKEN TO THEM, HE WAS TAKEN UP INTO HEAVEN AND HE SAT AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD.
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Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.