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from evening until the cock-crowing, keeping vigil and gathering together in the church, be watchful, praying and beseeching God in your all-night vigil, reading the Law, the Prophets, the Psalms, until the crowing of the cocks; and having baptized your catechumens and read the Gospel in fear and in trembling and spoken to the people the things that pertain to salvation, cease from your mourning and pray to God for Israel to be converted and to receive a place of repentance and forgiveness of their impiety; For the foreign judge, having washed his hands, said: 'I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man, you see to it,' but Israel cried out: 'His blood be on us and on our children.' And when Pilate said: 'Shall I crucify your king?' they cried out: 'We have no king but Caesar; crucify, crucify him; for everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar, and if you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend.' And Pilate the governor and Herod the king ordered him to be crucified, and the saying is fulfilled: 'Why did the Gentiles rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth stood by, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ, and they cast out the beloved as a loathsome corpse.' And He having been crucified on the preparation day and having risen at the dawning of the Lord's day, the scripture was fulfilled which says: 'Arise, O God, judge the earth, for you shall inherit all nations.' And again: 'Now I will arise, says the Lord, I will set him in safety; I will speak boldly in it.' And: 'But you, O Lord, have mercy on me and raise me up, and I will repay them.' Therefore you also, when the Lord has risen, offer your sacrifice, concerning which He commanded you through us, saying: 'Do this in remembrance of me,' and for the rest, cease from fasting, rejoicing and celebrating, because the pledge of your resurrection, Jesus Christ, has been raised from the dead, and let this be an eternal ordinance for you until the end of the age, until the Lord comes. For to the Jews the Lord is still dead, but to Christians He is risen, to the one because of unbelief, to the other because of full assurance, because the hope in Him is immortal and eternal life. And after eight days let there be for you again an honored feast, this eighth day itself, on which me, Thomas, doubting concerning the resurrection

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ἀπὸ ἑσπέρας ἕως ἀλεκτοροφωνίας ἀγρυπνοῦντες καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ συναθροιζόμενοι γρηγορεῖτε, προσευ χόμενοι καὶ δεόμενοι τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν τῇ διανυκτερεύσει ὑμῶν, ἀναγινώσκοντες τὸν Νόμον, τοὺς Προφήτας, τοὺς Ψαλμοὺς μέχρις ἀλεκτρυόνων κραυγῆς· καὶ βαπτίσαντες ὑμῶν τοὺς κατηχουμένους καὶ ἀναγνόντες τὸ Eὐαγγέλιον ἐν φόβῳ καὶ ἐν τρόμῳ καὶ προσλαλήσαντες τῷ λαῷ τὰ πρὸς σωτηρίαν, παύσασθε τοῦ πένθους ὑμῶν καὶ δεήθητε τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπιστρα φῆναι τὸν Ἰσραὴλ καὶ λαβεῖν αὐτὸν τόπον μετανοίας καὶ τῆς ἀσεβείας ἄφεσιν· Ὅτι ὁ μὲν ἀλλόφυλος κριτὴς νιψά μενος τὰς χεῖρας εἶπεν· «Ἀθῶός εἰμι ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ δικαίου τούτου, ὑμεῖς ὄψεσθε», ὁ δὲ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπεβόησεν· «Τὸ αἷμα αὐτοῦ ἐφ' ἡμᾶς καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ τέκνα ἡμῶν.» Καὶ Πιλάτου εἰπόντος· «Τὸν βασιλέα ὑμῶν σταυρώσω;» αὐτοὶ ἐπεβόων· «Oὐκ ἔχομεν βασιλέα εἰ μὴ καίσαρα· σταύρωσον, σταύρωσον αὐτόν· πᾶς γὰρ ὁ ποιῶν ἑαυτὸν βασιλέα ἀντιλέγει τῷ καίσαρι, καὶ ἐὰν τοῦτον ἀπολύσῃς, οὐκ εἶ φίλος τοῦ καίσαρος.» Καὶ Πιλᾶτος ὁ ἡγεμὼν καὶ Ἡρώδης ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐκέλευσεν αὐτὸν σταυρωθῆναι, καὶ πληροῦται τὸ φάσκον λόγιον· «Ἱνατί ἐφρύαξαν ἔθνη καὶ λαοὶ ἐμελέτησαν κενά; παρέστησαν οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες συνήχθησαν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ κατὰ τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ κατὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀπέρριψαν τὸν ἀγαπητὸν ὡσεὶ νεκρὸν ἐβδελυγμένον.» Καὶ αὐτοῦ σταυρωθέντος τῇ παρασκευῇ καὶ ἀναστάντος ἐπιφωσκούσης κυριακῆς, ἐπληρώθη ἡ γραφὴ ἡ λέγουσα· «Ἀνάστα, ὁ Θεός, κρῖνον τὴν γῆν, ὅτι σὺ κατακληρονο μήσεις ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν.» Καὶ πάλιν· «Νῦν ἀναστή σομαι, λέγει Κύριος, θήσομαι ἐν σωτηρίῳ καὶ παρρησιάσομαι ἐν αὐτῷ.» Καί· «Σὺ δέ, Κύριε, ἐλέησόν με καὶ ἀνάστησόν με, καὶ ἀνταποδώσω αὐτοῖς.» ∆ιὰ τοῦτο οὖν καὶ ὑμεῖς, ἀναστάντος τοῦ Κυρίου, προσενέγκατε τὴν θυσίαν ὑμῶν, περὶ ἧς ὑμῖν διετάξατο δι' ἡμῶν λέγων· «Τοῦτο ποιεῖτε εἰς τὴν ἐμὴν ἀνάμνησιν», καὶ λοιπὸν ἀπονηστεύετε, εὐφραι νόμενοι καὶ ἑορτάζοντες, ὅτι ἀρραβὼν τῆς ἀναστάσεως ὑμῶν Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστὸς ἐγήγερται ἐκ νεκρῶν, καὶ τοῦτο ὑμῖν ἔστω νόμιμον αἰώνιον ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος, μέχρις ἂν ἔλθῃ ὁ Κύριος. Ἰουδαίοις γὰρ ὁ Κύριος ἔτι τέθνηκεν, Χριστιανοῖς δὲ ἐγήγερται, τοῖς μὲν δι' ἀπιστίαν, τοῖς δὲ διὰ πληροφορίαν, ὅτι ἡ εἰς αὐτὸν ἐλπὶς ἀθάνατος ζωὴ καὶ αἰώνιος. Μετὰ δὲ ὀκτὼ ἡμέρας ἔστω ὑμῖν πάλιν ἑορτὴ τιμία αὐτὴ ἡ ὀγδόη, ἐν ᾗ δυσπιστοῦντα ἐμὲ Θωμᾶν ἐπὶ τῇ ἀναστάσει