Book of Common Prayer

⁵¹ Listen! I tell you a secret. We will not all die, but we will all be changed. It will happen very quickly, as fast as one can shut his eyes. It will be when the trumpet or horn is blown the last time. Someone will blow the trumpet, dead people will rise, and they will never die again. We ourselves will be changed.

⁵² This body which dies must become a body which will never die.

⁵³ When this body which dies becomes one which will never die, what the holy writings say comes true. It says, `Death is overcome by victory.

⁵⁴ Death, you have lost the battle. Death, your power to hurt us is gone.'

⁵⁵ Death hurts us because we are bad people. And our wrong ways are so strong because of the law.

⁵⁶ But I thank God that he gives us power to stop being wrong through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵⁷ So, my dear brothers, stand strong. Do not be moved from what you believe. Work hard for the Lord. You know that your work for the Lord will not be for nothing.

12 About that time, Jesus was walking through the grain fields on a Sabbath day. His disciples were hungry. They began to pick some of the grain and to eat it.

² The Pharisees saw them. They said to Jesus, `Look! Your disciples are doing what is not right on the Sabbath day.'

³ But Jesus said to them, `Have you not read what David did? He and his men who were with him were hungry.

⁴ He went into God's house. Some bread was there for God. David's men ate it. David did not have the right to eat it, nor the men who were with him. Only the priests have the right to eat it. But David took the bread and ate it. He also gave some of it to the men who were with him.

⁵ `Have you never read in the books of the law that the priests in the temple break the Sabbath law on the Sabbath day? They are not punished for it.

⁶ I tell you, there is someone here who is greater than the temple.

⁷ `You do not know what this means, "I want you to be kind; I do not want a sacrifice." If you knew, then you would not have said what they did was wrong. What they did was not wrong.

⁸ The Son of Man rules over the Sabbath day.'

⁹ Jesus left that place and went into the meeting house.

¹⁰ There was a man whose hand was thin and weak. The people asked Jesus, `Is it right to heal a man on the Sabbath day?' They wanted to find something wrong about Jesus.

¹¹ Jesus said to them, `If one of you had a sheep and it fell into a hole on the Sabbath day, would you not take hold of it and pull it out?

¹² A man is worth much more than a sheep. So it is right to do good things on the Sabbath day.'

¹³ Then he said to the man, `Hold out your hand.' The man held out his hand and it was made well like the other hand.

¹⁴ Then the Pharisees went out and planned together how to kill Jesus.