April 15 – When Anger Meets Grace

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, April 15th.

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When anger meets grace, anger
can rise fast.

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Sometimes it shows up before we
even realize what is happening.

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A disrespectful comment, unfair
treatment, betrayal,

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frustration, or being
misunderstood can light

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something inside us almost
instantly.

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Proverbs chapter 14 verses 16 to
17 says one who is wise is

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cautious and turns away from
evil.

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But a fool is hot headed and
reckless.

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A quick tempered man acts
foolishly.

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That is not because anger itself
makes you evil, but because

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unguarded anger can quickly take
control and lead you somewhere

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damaging.
Then Isaiah 53 verse 7 gives us

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one of the clearest pictures of
Jesus.

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He was oppressed and He was
afflicted, yet He opened not his

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mouth.
And Mark chapter 15 shows him

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enduring the cross, mocked and
rejected, yet still walking in

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surrender to the Father.
Jesus had every right to respond

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in wrath, yet He chose grace.
He absorbed injustice without

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becoming sinful in response to
it.

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That is powerful because it
shows us what real strength

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looks like.
The world often treats

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self-control like weakness, as
if the strongest person is the

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loudest one or the one who can
hit back the hardest.

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But Jesus shows that strength is
not losing yourself in the

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moment.
Strength is staying rooted in

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truth, love, and obedience even
when you have been wounded.

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This does not mean you ignore
wrong things or pretend hurt

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does not matter.
Grace is not pretending

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everything is OK.
It is choosing to let God shape

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your response instead of letting
anger rule your heart.

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You can be honest about pain
without becoming reckless with

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your words.
You can address what is wrong

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without surrendering your peace.
If there is anger sitting in

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your heart today, bring it to
Jesus.

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Let Him meet you there.
Ask Him to show you what is

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underneath it.
Hurt, fear, pride,

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disappointment.
He can heal what your anger has

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been trying to protect, and He
can teach you to respond with

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wisdom, courage, and grace.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
showing me real strength through

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Jesus.
When anger rises in me, help me

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pause and surrender it to You.
Guard my words, my reactions,

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and my heart from recklessness.
Teach me to respond with wisdom

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and grace, not pride or
bitterness.

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Heal the places in me that are
hurting and help my life reflect

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the patience and love of Christ
in Jesus name, Amen.

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What if you could rise up and
declare with full spiritual

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live?

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Now I invite you to spend time
with God in today’s three-year

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Bible reading plan.
Proverbs Chapter 14 verses 16 to

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17 World English Bible A wise
man fears and shuns evil, but

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the fool is hot headed and
reckless.

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He who is quick to become angry
will commit folly, and a crafty

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man is hated.
Isaiah chapter 53 World English

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Bible Who has believed our
message?

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To whom has Yahweh’s arm been
revealed?

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For he grew up before him as a
tender plant and as a root out

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of dry ground.
He has no good looks or majesty.

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When we see him, there is no
beauty that we should desire

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him.
He was despised and rejected by

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men, A man of suffering and
acquainted with disease.

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He was despised as one from whom
men hide their face, and we

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didn’t respect him.
Surely he has borne our sickness

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and carried our suffering.
Yet we considered him plagued,

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struck by God, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our

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transgressions.
He was crushed for our

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iniquities.
The punishment that brought our

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peace was on Him, and by His
wounds we are healed.

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All we, like sheep, have gone
astray.

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Everyone has turned to His own
way, and Yahweh has laid on Him

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the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, yet when he

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was afflicted He didn’t open His
mouth.

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As a lamb that has led to the
slaughter and as a sheep that

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before its shearers is silent,
so he didn’t open his mouth.

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He was taken away by oppression
and judgment.

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As for his generation, who
considered that He was cut off

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out of the land of the living
and stricken for the

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disobedience of My people, they
made His grave with the wicked

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and with a rich man.
In his death, although he had

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done no violence, nor was any
deceit in His mouth, yet it

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pleased Yahweh to bruise him.
He has caused Him to suffer.

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When you make His soul an
offering for sin, He will see

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His offspring, He will prolong
His days, and Yahweh’s pleasure

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will prosper in His hand.
After the suffering of his soul,

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He will see the light and be
satisfied.

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My righteous servant will
justify many by the knowledge of

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Himself, and He will bear their
iniquities.

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Therefore I will give him a
portion with the great.

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He will divide the plunder with
the strong.

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Because He poured out his soul
to death and was counted with

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the transgressors, yet He bore
the sins of many and made

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intercession for the
transgressors.

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Mark Chapter 15 World English
Bible Immediately in the morning

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the chief priests, with the
elders, scribes, and the whole

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council held a consultation
bound.

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Jesus carried him away and
delivered him up to Pillate.

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Pillate asked him, Are you the
King of the Jews?

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He answered, So you say.
The chief priests accused him of

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many things.
Pillate again asked him, Have

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you no answer?
See how many things they testify

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against you?
But Jesus made no further

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answer, so that Pillate marveled
now at the feast.

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He used to release to them one
prisoner, whomever they asked of

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Him.
There was one called Barabbas,

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bound with his fellow
insurgents, men who in the

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insurrection had committed
murder.

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The multitude, crying aloud,
began to ask him to do as he

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always did for them.
Pillate answered them, saying,

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Do you want me to release to you
the King of the Jews?

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For he perceived that for envy
the chief priests had delivered

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him up.
But the chief priests stirred up

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the multitude that he should
release Barabbas to them

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instead.
Pillate again asked them, What

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then should I do to him whom you
call the King of the Jews?

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They cried out again.
Crucify him, Pillate said to

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them, Why, what evil has he
done?

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But they cried out exceedingly.
Crucify him.

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Pillate, wishing to please the
multitude, released Barabbas to

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them and handed over Jesus.
When he had flogged him to be

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crucified, the soldiers led him
away within the court which is

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the Praetorium, and they called
together the whole cohort.

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They clothed him with purple,
and weaving a crown of thorns,

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they put it on him.
They began to salute him.

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Hail King of the Jews.
They struck his head with a Reed

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and spat on Him, and bowing
their knees, did homage to Him.

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When they had mocked Him, they
took the purple cloak off him

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and put his own garments on him.
They led him out to crucify Him.

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They compelled 1 passing by,
coming from the country, Simon

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of Cyrene, the father of
Alexander and Rufus, to go with

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them, that he might bear his
cross.

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They brought him to the place
called Golgotha, which is being

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interpreted the place of a
skull.

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They offered him wine mixed with
myrrh to drink, but he didn’t

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take it.
Crucifying him.

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They parted his garments among
them, casting lots on them what

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each should take.
It was the third hour when they

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crucified him.
The superscription of his

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accusation was written over him,
the king of the Jews.

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With him they crucified 2
robbers, 1 on his right hand and

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one on his left.
The Scripture was fulfilled

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which says He was counted with
transgressors.

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Those who passed by blasphemed
Him, wagging their heads and

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saying, Ha, you who destroy the
temple and build it in three

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days, save yourself and come
down from the cross.

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Likewise also the chief priests,
mocking among themselves with

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the scribes, said He saved
others, he can’t save himself.

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Let the Christ the King of
Israel now come down from the

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cross, that we may see and
believe Him.

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Those who were crucified with
him also insulted Him.

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When the 6th hour had come,
there was darkness over the

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whole land until the 9th hour.
At the 9th hour, Jesus cried

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with a loud voice saying Eloy
Eloy, Lama Sabachthani, which is

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being interpreted, My God, my
God, why have you forsaken me?

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Some of those who stood by when
they heard it said, Behold, he

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is calling Elijah.
One ran and filling a sponge

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full of vinegar, put it on a
Reed and gave it to him to

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drink, saying let him be, let’s
see whether Elijah comes to take

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him down.
Jesus cried out with a loud

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voice and gave up the spirit.
The veil of the temple was torn

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in two from the top to the
bottom.

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When the centurion who stood by
opposite him saw that he cried

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out like this and breathed his
last, he said truly, this man

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was the Son of God.
They were also women watching

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from afar, among whom were both
Mary Magdalene and Mary the

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mother of James the Less, and of
Hosea’s and Salome, who, when he

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was in Galilee, followed him and
served him and many other women

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who came up with him to
Jerusalem.

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When evening had now come,
because it was the preparation

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day, that is, the day before the
Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, A

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prominent council member, who
also himself was looking for

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God’s Kingdom, came.
He boldly went into Pillate and

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asked for Jesus body.
Pillate was surprised to hear

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that he was already dead, and
summoning the centurion, he

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asked him whether he had been
dead long.

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When he found out from the
centurion, he granted the body

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to Joseph.
He bought a linen cloth and

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taking him down, wound him in
the linen cloth and laid him in

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a tomb which had been cut out of
a rock.

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He rolled a stone against the
door of the tomb.

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Mary Magdalene and Mary, the
mother of Jose is saw where he

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was laid.
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