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The

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gates and doors were barred, and all the
windows fastened down.

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I spent the night in sleeplessness,
rose at every sound.

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Half in hopeless sorrow, half in fear the
day, would find the soldiers breaking

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through to drag us all away.

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Just before the sunrise, I heard something
at the wall.

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The gate began to rattle, a voice began to
call.

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I hurried to the window, and looked down
into the street, expecting swords and

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torches, and the sound of soldiers' feet.

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But there was no one there but Mary,
so I went down to let her in.

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John stood there beside me, as she told us
where she'd been.

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She said they've moved him in the night.

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None of us knows where, the stone's been
rolled away, and now his body isn't there.

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We both ran toward the garden,
then John ran on ahead.

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We found the stone in the empty tomb,
just the way that Mary'd said.

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But the winding sheet they'd wrapped him
in was just an empty shell.

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How or where they'd taken him was more
than I could tell.

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Something strange had happened there,
but just what, I didn't know.

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John believed a miracle, but I just turned
to go.

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Circumstance and speculation couldn't lift
me very high, cause I'd seen them crucify

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him, then I saw him die.

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Back inside the house again, the guilt and
anguish came.

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Everything I'd promised him, just added to
my shame, cause when at last it came,

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the choices I'd denied, I knew his name.

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Even if he was alive, it wouldn't be the
same.

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Suddenly the air was filled with strange
and sweet perfume, light that came from

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everywhere, drove shadows from the room.

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Jesus stood before me, with his arms held
open wide.

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I fell down on my knees, and just clung to
him and cried.

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He raised me to my feet, and as I looked
into his eyes, love was shining out from

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him, like sunlight from the skies.

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Guilt and my confusion disappeared in
sweet release, and every fear I'd ever

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had, just melted into peace.

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He's alive and I'm forgiven, heaven's
gates are open wide.

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He's alive, he's alive, he's alive and I'm
forgiven, heaven's gates are open wide.

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He's alive, he's alive, he's alive and I'm
forgiven, heaven's gates are open wide.

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He's alive, he's alive, he's alive.