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Luke 24:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The women were afraid and bowed to the ground. But the men said, “Why are you looking in the place of the dead for someone who is alive?

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Then he appeared in human form and touched my lips. I said, “Sir, this vision has brought me great pain and has drained my strength.

Mary was confused by the angel's words and wondered what they meant.

and they did not know what to think. Suddenly two men in shining white clothes stood beside them.

Jesus isn't here! He has been raised from death. Remember that while he was still in Galilee, he told you,

But God set him free from death and raised him to life. Death could not hold him in its power.

Priests are given a tenth of what people earn. But all priests die, except Melchizedek, and the Scriptures teach that he is alive.

and the living one. I died, but now I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys to death and the world of the dead.

This is what you must write to the angel of the church in Smyrna: I am the first and the last. I died, but now I am alive! Listen to what I say.