“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;
but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”
Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah.
then he received him into his arms and blessed God, and said,
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Messiah, which is far better.
I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labours, for their works follow with them.”
They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”