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up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate,
when he was determined to let him go; but

you denied the Holy One and the Just,
and desired a murderer to be granted

unto you; and killed the Prince of life,
whom God has raised from the dead; whereof
we are witnesses.

2 For Christ also has once suffered for sins,

the just for the unjust, that he might bring
us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but
given life by the Spirit: by which also he went
and preached unto the spirits in prison; which
sometime were disobedient, when once the

longsuffering of God waited in the days of
Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein
few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

3 Which of the prophets have not your father’s

persecuted? They have slain them that told of
the coming of the Just One; of whom

you have been now the betrayers and
murderers: who have received the law by the
disposition of angels, and have not kept it. 4 My