The Resurrection

16 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of ^[a]James, and Salome bought spices so that they might come and anoint Him. ² And very early on the first day of the week, they *came to the tomb when the sun had risen. ³ They were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone from the entrance of the tomb for us?” ⁴ And looking up, they *noticed that the stone had been rolled away; ^[b]for it was extremely large. ⁵ And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting at the right, wearing a white robe; and they were amazed. ⁶ But he *said to them, “Do not be amazed; you are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen; He is not here; see, here is the place where they laid Him. ⁷ But go, tell His disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see Him, just as He told you.’” ⁸ And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had gripped them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

⁹ [[^[c]Now after He had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons. ¹⁰ She went and reported to those who had been with Him, while they were mourning and weeping. ¹¹ And when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they refused to believe it.

¹² Now after that, He appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking along on their way to the country. ¹³ And they went away and reported it to the rest, but they did not believe them, either.

The Disciples Commissioned

¹⁴ Later He appeared to the eleven disciples themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reprimanded them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen from the dead. ¹⁵ And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. ¹⁶ The one who has believed and has been baptized will be saved; but the one who has not believed will be condemned. ¹⁷ These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; ¹⁸ they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

¹⁹ So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. ²⁰ And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed.]]

[[^[d]And they promptly reported all these instructions to Peter and his companions. And after that, Jesus Himself also sent out through them from east to west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation.]]

The Fall of Jerusalem

52 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was ^[a]Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ² He did evil in the sight of the Lord, in accordance with everything that Jehoiakim had done. ³ For because of the anger of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, until He drove them out from His presence. And Zedekiah revolted against the king of Babylon. ⁴ Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it, and built a ^[b]bulwark all around ^[c]it. ⁵ So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. ⁶ On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. ⁷ Then the city was breached, and all the warriors fled and left the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were ^[d]all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah. ⁸ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the ^[e]desert plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. ⁹ Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he ^[f]passed sentence on him. ¹⁰ And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the commanders of Judah in Riblah. ¹¹ Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze shackles and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.

¹² Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who ^[g]was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. ¹³ And he burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire. ¹⁴ So the entire army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard tore down all the walls around Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. ¹⁶ But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.

¹⁷ Now the bronze pillars which belonged to the house of the Lord and the stands and the bronze ^[h]sea, which were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans smashed to pieces and carried all their bronze to Babylon. ¹⁸ They also took the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the ^[i]pans, and all the bronze vessels which were used in temple service. ¹⁹ The captain of the guard also took the bowls, the firepans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the ^[j]pans, and the drink offering bowls, whatever was fine gold, and whatever was fine silver. ²⁰ The two pillars, the one ^[k]sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under ^[l]the sea, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord—the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight. ²¹ As for the pillars, the height of each pillar was ^[m]eighteen cubits, and ^[n]it was twelve cubits in circumference and four fingers in thickness, and hollow. ²² Also, a capital of bronze was on top of it; and the height of each capital was ^[o]five cubits, with latticework and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these, including pomegranates. ²³ There were ninety-six ^[p]exposed pomegranates; all the pomegranates numbered a hundred on the latticework all around.

²⁴ Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three ^[q]officers of the temple. ²⁵ He also took from the city one official who was overseer of the warriors, seven ^[r]of the king’s advisers who were found in the city, the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land who were found inside the city. ²⁶ Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguards took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ²⁷ Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was led into exile from its land.

²⁸ These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar took into exile: in the ^[s]seventh year 3,023 Jews; ²⁹ in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar 832 persons from Jerusalem; ³⁰ in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took into exile 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 people in all.

³¹ Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that ^[t]Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, ^[u]showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison. ³² Then he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon. ³³ So ^[v]Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and ^[w]had his meals in ^[x]the king’s presence regularly all the days of his life. ³⁴ And as his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day, all the days of his life until the day of his death.