Matthew 17:7

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But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don’t be afraid.”

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Again the one who looked like a man touched me and gave me strength.

But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

While he was speaking to me, I was in a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me and raised me to my feet.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.

A hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.

“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.

When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified.

When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.