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2:1 Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.

2:2 And I went up by revelation; and I put before them the good news which I was preaching among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were of good name, so that the work which I was or had been doing might not be without effect.

Indian Orthodoxy Easter Announcement

In the Indian Orthodox Church the Vigil begins in the evening after the service on Good Friday. The faithful spend time in the church reading from the scriptures and singing hymns.

19:1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him whipped with cords.

19:2 And the men of the army made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a purple robe on him.

19:3 And they kept coming and saying, Long life to the King of the Jews! And they gave him blows with their hands.