Mark 15:42-47

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The Burial of Jesus

⁴²When^(A) it was already evening, because it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath), ⁴³Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Sanhedrin who was himself looking forward^(B) to the kingdom of God,^(C) came and boldly went to Pilate^(D) and asked for Jesus’s body.^(E) ⁴⁴Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had already died. ⁴⁵When he found out from the centurion, he gave the corpse to Joseph. ⁴⁶After he bought some linen cloth, Joseph took him down and wrapped him in the linen. Then he laid him in a tomb^(F) cut out of the rock and rolled a stone^(G) against the entrance to the tomb. ⁴⁷Mary Magdalene^(H) and Mary the mother of Joses were watching where he was laid.

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Lamentations 3:1-9

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Hope through God’s Mercy

א Aleph

3 I am the man who has seen affliction
under the rod of God’s wrath.
²He has driven me away and forced me to walk
in darkness instead of light.^(A)
³Yes, he repeatedly turns his hand
against me all day long.

ב Beth

⁴He has worn away my flesh and skin;^(B)
he has broken my bones.^(C)
⁵He has laid siege against me,^(D)
encircling me with bitterness and hardship.^(E)
⁶He has made me dwell in darkness
like those who have been dead for ages.^(F)

ג Gimel

⁷He has walled me in so I cannot get out;^(G)
he has weighed me down with chains.
⁸Even when I cry out and plead for help,
he blocks out my prayer.^(H)
⁹He has walled in my ways with blocks of stone;^(I)
he has made my paths crooked.^(J)

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Lamentations 3:19-24

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ז Zayin

¹⁹Remember^[a] my affliction and my homelessness,^(A)
the wormwood and the poison.^(B)
²⁰I continually remember them
and have become depressed.^[b]^(C)
²¹Yet I call this to mind,
and therefore I have hope:^(D)

ח Cheth

²²Because of the Lord’s faithful love^(E)
we do not perish,^[c]
for his mercies never end.
²³They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness!^(F)
²⁴I say, “The Lord is my portion,^(G)
therefore I will put my hope in him.”

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Notas al pie

3:19 Or I remember
3:20 Alt Hb tradition reads and you cause me to collapse
3:22 One Hb mss, Syr, Tg read The Lord’s faithful love, indeed, does not perish

Colossians 1:15-23

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The Centrality of Christ

¹⁵He is the image of the invisible God,^(A)
the firstborn over all creation.^(B)
¹⁶For everything was created by him,^(C)
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities—
all things have been created through him and for him.^(D)
¹⁷He is before all things,^(E)
and by him all things^(F) hold together.
¹⁸He is also the head of the body, the church;
he is the beginning,^(G)
the firstborn from the dead,^(H)
so that he might come to have
first place in everything.
¹⁹For God was pleased to have
all his fullness^(I) dwell in him,^(J)
²⁰and through him to reconcile
everything to himself,
whether things on earth or things in heaven,
by making peace^(K)
through his blood,^(L) shed on the cross.^[a]^(M)

²¹Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds as expressed in your evil actions. ²²But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death,^(N) to present you holy, faultless,^(O) and blameless before him^(P)— ²³if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith^(Q) and are not shifted away from the hope^(R) of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation^(S) under heaven,^(T) and I, Paul,^(U) have become a servant of it.

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Notas al pie

1:20 Other mss add through him

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