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And though they found no cause for death in Him, yet they asked Pilate that He should be slain.
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And when they had fulfilled all that was written of Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a sepulcher.
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But God raised Him from the dead;
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and He was seen many days by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses unto the people.
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And we declare unto you glad tidings of the promise which was made unto the fathers:
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God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that He hath raised up Jesus again, as it is also written in the second Psalm: `Thou art My Son; this day have I begotten Thee.'
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And concerning that He raised Him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, He said thus: `I will give you the sure mercies of David.'
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Therefore He saith also in another Psalm: `Thou shalt not suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption.'
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For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption.
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But He whom God raised again saw no corruption.
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Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins;