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348 with no one, but are speechless as dead men. But come, let us go to them, and let us bring them to us with all honour and gentleness. And if we adjure them, perhaps they will speak to us of the mystery of their resurrection.

When they heard this they all rejoiced. And Annas and Caiaphas, Nicodemus and Joseph and Gamaliel went and found them not in their sepulchre; but on going into the city of Arimathea there they found them on bended knees and occupied in prayer. And kissing them, with all veneration, and in the fear of God, they brought them to Jerusalem to the synagogue. And when the doors were shut, they took the law of the Lord and put it in their hands, adjuring them by the God Adonai and the God of Israel, who spake by the law and the prophets to our fathers, saying, If ye believe that it is Jesus who raised you from the dead, tell us how ye rose from the dead.

When Karinus and Leucius heard this adjuration, they trembled in body and groaned, being troubled in heart. And looking together to heaven they made the sign of the cross on their tongues with their fingers, and immediately they spake together, saying, Give us separate sheets of paper, and let us write what we have seen and heard. And they