Acts 10:34-43
10:34 Then Peter began to speak to
them: "I truly understand that God shows no partiality,
10:35 but in
every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to
him.
10:36 You know the message he sent to the people of Israel,
preaching peace by Jesus Christ--he is Lord of all.
10:37 That message
spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John
announced:
10:38 how 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.
10:39 We are witnesses to all that he
did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a
tree;
10:40 but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to
appear,
10:41 not 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.
10:42 He 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.
10:43
All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives
forgiveness of sins through his name."
1 Corinthians 15:19-26
15:19 If for this life
only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be
pitied.
15:20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first
fruits of those who have died.
15:21 For since death came through a human
being, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human
being;
15:22 for as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in
Christ.
15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at
his coming those who belong to Christ.
15:24 Then comes the end, when he
hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every ruler and
every authority and power.
15:25 For he must reign until he has put all
his enemies under his feet.
15:26 The last enemy to be destroyed is
death.
John 20:1-18
20:1 Early 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.
20:2 So 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."
20:3 Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the
tomb.
20:4 The two were running together, but the other disciple outran
Peter and reached the tomb first.
20:5 He bent down to look in and saw
the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in.
20:6 Then Simon
Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings
lying there,
20:7 and the cloth that had been on Jesus' head, not lying
with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.
20:8 Then
the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and
believed;
20:9 for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he
must rise from the dead.
20:10 Then the disciples returned to their
homes.
20:11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she
bent over to look into the tomb;
20:12 and 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.
20:13 They 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."
20:14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus
standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.
20:15 Jesus 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."
20:16 Jesus said to
her, "Mary!" She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means
Teacher).
20:17 Jesus said to her, "Do not hold on to 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.'"
20:18
Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and
she told them that he had said these things to her.
