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The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
3 At sunset the suffering of Issa ended. He lost his consciousness and the soul, of this just man freed itself from his body to be absorbed in the Divinity.
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Thus ended the terrestrial life of the reflection of the Eternal Spirit in the form of a man who endured so much suffering, saving hardened sinners.
Pilate, however, through his own actions feared the throng, and returned the body of the Saint to his relatives, who interred it near the place of execution; the people came to pray at his tomb filling the air with weeping and wailings.
Three days afterwards fearing a general uprising, the Governor sent soldiers to raise secretly the body of Issa and bury it in some other place.
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'The next day the throng found the tomb open and' empty; so that the rumour was spread that the Supreme judge had sent His angels to carry away the mortal remains of the Saint in whom had dwelt on earth a part of the Divine Spirit.
When the rumour reached Pilate he was very angry and forbade them under penalty of slavery and death ever to utter the name of Issa, or to pray to the Lord for him.
But the people continued to weep and to glorify their Master aloud; so that many of them were led into captivity and subjected to torture and put to death
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