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being interpreted, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? And some of the passers-by hearing,
said, Behold He calleth Elias. And one running and filling a sponge with vinegar and putting it
upon a reed, gave Him to drink, saying, Stay, let us see if Elias come to take Him down. And Jesus,
having cried out with a loud voice, gave up the ghost. And the veil of the temple was rent in two,
from the top to the bottom. And the centurion who stood over against Him, seeing that crying out in
this manner He had given up the ghost, said, Indeed this Man was the Son of God. And there were
also women looking on afar off : among whom were Mary Magdalen and Mary, the mother of James the
Less, and of Joseph and Salome. They also when He was in Galilee followed Him and ministered to
Him, and many other women that came up with Him to Jerusalem.

THE BURIAL OF JESUS.

And when the evening was now come (because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the
sabbath), Joseph of Arimathea, a noble counsellor, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of
God, came and went in boldly to Pilate and begged the Body of Jesus. But Pilate wondered that He
should be already dead. And sending for the centurion, he asked him if He were already dead. And
when he had understood it by the centurion, he gave the Body to Joseph. And Joseph, buying fine
linen and taking Him down, wrapped Him up in the fine linen and laid Him in a sepulchre which was
hewed out of a rock. And he rolleth a stone to the door of the sepulchre.
V. The Lord be with you.  R. And with thy spirit.
Offertory. Ps. 139, 5. Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked : and from unjust men deliver
me.
The Offertory Prayers, pp. , ff.