Easter Day

10:34Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality,

10:35but in every people anyone who fears him and practices righteousness is acceptable to him.

10:36You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ–he is Lord of all.

10:37That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced:

10:38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

10:39We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree,

10:40but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear,

10:41not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

10:42He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead.

10:43All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

118:1O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever!

118:2Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.”

118:14The LORD is my strength and my might; he has become my salvation.

118:15There are glad songs of victory in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD does valiantly;

118:16the right hand of the LORD is exalted; the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.”

118:17I shall not die, but I shall live and recount the deeds of the LORD.

118:18The LORD has punished me severely, but he did not give me over to death.

118:19Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.

118:20This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it.

118:21I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation.

118:22The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.

118:23This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.

118:24This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

3:1So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

3:2Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth,

3:3for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

3:4When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.

20:1Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

20:2So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”

20:3Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb.

20:4The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.

20:5He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in.

20:6Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there,

20:7and the cloth that had been on Jesus’s head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.

20:8Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed,

20:9for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

20:10Then the disciples returned to their homes.

20:11But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb,

20:12and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet.

20:13They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.”

20:14When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

20:15Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

20:16Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher).

20:17Jesus said to her, “Do not touch me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'”

20:18Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and she told them that he had said these things to her.