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OF JESUS OF NAZARETH.
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39 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.

40 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

41 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.

42 ¶ Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

43 And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:

44 Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children.

LXIX.

His Burial.

The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.