And Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, and some other women, saw the tomb, and watched while they laid the body of Jesus in it.  On the next morning, some of the rulers of the Jews came to Pilate, and said: 

“Sir, we remember that that man Jesus of Nazareth, who deceived the people, said while he was yet alive, ’After three days I will rise again.’  Give orders that the tomb shall be watched and made sure for three days, or else his disciples may steal his body, and then say, ’He is risen from the dead’; and thus even after his death he may do more harm than he did while he was alive.”

Pilate said to them: 

“Set a watch, and make it as sure as you can.”

Then they placed a seal upon the stone, so that no one might break it; and they set a watch of soldiers at the door.

And in the tomb the body of Jesus lay from the evening of Friday, the day when he died on the cross, to the dawn of Sunday, the first day of the week, when he arose from the dead and appeared unto his disciples.

But the brightest day in all the world was this Sunday morning.  For on that day the stone was rolled away from the tomb and Jesus came forth from the dead to gladden his disciples.  This he had told them he would do.  On this Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene and another Mary, called Salome, came to the tomb, found the stone rolled away and an angel standing by the open tomb.  He told them that Jesus was not there, but had risen.

Afterward Jesus was with his disciples for forty days, after which he was taken up into heaven.

THE STORY OF THE MAN AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE

Soon after Jesus was taken up into heaven, his disciples began to preach, as he had told them to do.  They stood up in the streets, and in the Temple, and spoke to the people all the words that Jesus had given to them.  And although they could no longer see Jesus, he was with them, and helped them, and gave them great power.

The two apostles, Peter and John, were one day going up to the temple at the afternoon hour of prayer, about three o’clock.  They walked across the court of the Gentiles, which was a large, open square paved with marble, having on its eastern side a double row of pillars with a roof above them, called Solomon’s Porch.  In front of this porch was the principal entrance to the Temple, through a gate which was called “The Beautiful Gate.”  In front of this gate they saw a lame man sitting.  He was one who in all his life had never been able to walk; and as he was very poor, his friends carried him every day to this place; and there he sat, hoping that some of those who went into the Temple might take pity on him, and give him a little money.

In front of this man Peter and John stopped; and Peter said:  “Look at us!”

The lame man looked earnestly on the two apostles, thinking they were about to give him something.  But Peter said: