The Death of Jesus

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Now from ye sixt houre was there darkenesse ouer all the land, vnto the ninth houre.

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And about ye ninth houre Iesus cryed with a loud voyce, saying, Eli, Eli, lamasabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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And some of them that stoode there, when they heard it, said, This man calleth Elias.

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And straightway one of them ran, and tooke a spondge, and filled it with vineger, and put it on a reede, and gaue him to drinke.

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Other said, Let be: let vs see, if Elias wil come and saue him.

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Then Iesus cryed againe with a loude voyce, and yeelded vp the ghost.

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And behold, the vayle of the Temple was rent in twaine, from the top to the bottome, and the earth did quake, and the stones were cloue.

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And the graues did open themselues, and many bodies of the Saintes, which slept, arose,

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And came out of the graues after his resurrection, and went into the holy citie, and appeared vnto many.

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When the Centurion, and they that were with him watching Iesus, saw the earthquake, and the thinges that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truely this was the Sonne of God.

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