NEW TESTAMENT

John 20:8

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So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.

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Verse 8. He saw and believed. He did not yet believe that Jesus was risen from the dead, because he was still ignorant that he was to rise from the dead. For although the apostles had so often heard their divine Master speak in the most plain terms of his resurrection, still being so much accustomed to parables, they did not understand, and imagined something else was meant by these words. Saint Augustine tract. 120. in Joan.

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