and saying, "The Lord is risen indeed! He has appeared to Simon!"

So it was not really you who sent me here, but God. He has made me the king's highest official. I am in charge of his whole country; I am the ruler of all Egypt.

"Now hurry back to my father and tell him that this is what his son Joseph says: 'God has made me ruler of all Egypt; come to me without delay.

He put him in charge of his government and made him ruler over all the land,

All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "I will go down to the world of the dead still mourning for my son." So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.

Their father said to them, "Do you want to make me lose all my children? Joseph is gone; Simeon is gone; and now you want to take away Benjamin. I am the one who suffers!"

But Jacob said, "My son cannot go with you; his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. Something might happen to him on the way. I am an old man, and the sorrow you would cause me would kill me."

One of them has already left me. He must have been torn to pieces by wild animals, because I have not seen him since he left.

When I felt my life slipping away, then, O LORD, I prayed to you, and in your holy Temple you heard me.

Yet even then, if he lets me speak, I can't believe he would listen to me.

I smiled on them when they had lost confidence; my cheerful face encouraged them.

When the LORD brought us back to Jerusalem, it was like a dream!

But the apostles thought that what the women said was nonsense, and they did not believe them.

They still could not believe, they were so full of joy and wonder; so he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"