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.

24 On the first day of the week, early in the morning, the women went to the grave. They took with them the things they had made ready.

² They saw that the stone was rolled away from the grave.

³ So they went in. But they did not see the body of the Lord Jesus.

⁴ They were troubled about this. Then they saw two men standing near them. They were dressed in white clothes.

⁵ The women were afraid and bowed their faces down to the ground. The men said to them, `Why do you look for a living person among dead people?

⁶ He is not here. He has risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee.

⁷ He said that the Son of Man would be given over to bad men. He would be nailed to a cross, and he would rise on the third day.'

⁸ Then they remembered what he had said.

⁹ They left the grave and went back. They told all these things to the eleven disciples and to all the other people.

¹⁰ The women who told these things to the apostles were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women who were with them.

¹¹ But Peter got up and ran to the grave. He bowed down and looked in. He saw the linen clothes lying there, but nothing more. Then he left, wondering about what had happened.

¹² That same day, two of the disciples were going to the town called Emmaus. It was about two hours walk from Jerusalem.