Book of Common Prayer

So If Christ Was Raised, Why Do Some of You Say There Is No Resurrection?

¹² But if Christ is being proclaimed^[a] that He has been raised from the dead, how is it some are saying among you that there is no resurrection of dead^[b] ones?

If The Dead Are Not Raised, Christ Was Not Raised, And Your Faith Is Futile

¹³ Now if there is no resurrection of dead ones, neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁴ And if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is also empty; your faith is also empty; ¹⁵ and we are even found to be false-witnesses of ^[c] God, because we testified against^[d] God that He did raise Christ— Whom He did not raise if-indeed then dead ones are not raised. ¹⁶ For if dead ones are not raised, neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile. You are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then also the ones having fallen-asleep in Christ perished^[e]. ¹⁹ If we are ones having hoped in Christ in this life only, we are more pitiable^[f] than all people.

But Christ Has Been Raised As The Firstfruit of Those Yet To Be Raised

²⁰ But now, Christ has been raised from the dead— the firstfruit^[g] of the ones having fallen-asleep. ²¹ For since death came through a man, the resurrection of dead ones also came through a man. ²² For just as in^[h] Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be given-life^[i], ²³ but each in his own order^[j]: Christ the firstfruit; after-that^[k] the ones of ^[l] Christ at His coming. ²⁴ Then^[m] comes the end— when He hands-over the kingdom to His God and Father, when He^[n] has abolished all^[o] rule and all authority and power. ²⁵ For He^[p] must reign until which time He^[q] has put all the enemies under His feet. ²⁶ Death, the last enemy, is abolished^[r]— ²⁷ for “He^[s] subjected all things under His^[t] feet” [Ps 8:6]. But when He says^[u] that “All things have been subjected”, it is clear that this is except the One^[v] having subjected all things to Him. ²⁸ But when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One^[w] having subjected all things to Him, in order that God may be all things in all.

Jesus Appears To Mary, Then To Two In The Country, Then To The Eleven

⁹ And [Jesus] having risen-up early-in-the-morning on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary the Magdalene, from whom He had cast-out seven demons. ¹⁰ That one, having gone, reported it to the ones having been with Him, while they were mourning and weeping. ¹¹ And-those-ones, having heard that He was alive and was seen by her, did not-believe^[a] her. ¹² And after these things, He appeared in a different form to two of them walking, while they were proceeding into the country. ¹³ And those ones, having gone, reported it to the rest. They did not even believe those ones. ¹⁴ And later He appeared to the eleven themselves while they were reclining-back [to eat]. And He reproached^[b] their unbelief and hardness-of-heart because they did not believe the ones having seen Him arisen.

Jesus Commissions His Followers To Proclaim The Gospel To All Creation

¹⁵ And He said to them, “Having gone into all the world, proclaim the good-news to^[c] all creation. ¹⁶ The one having believed and having been baptized will be saved. But the one having not-believed will be condemned. ¹⁷ And these signs will accompany^[d] the ones having believed: in My name they will cast-out demons, they will speak in^[e] new tongues^[f], ¹⁸ and they will pick up snakes^[g] with their hands. And if they drink any deadly thing, it will by-no-means^[h] hurt^[i] them. They will lay hands on sick ones, and they will be well”.

Jesus Is Taken Up Into Heaven

¹⁹ So indeed the Lord Jesus, after He spoke to them, was taken-up into heaven and sat-down on the right side of God. ²⁰ And those ones, having gone-forth, proclaimed it everywhere, the Lord working-with them and confirming^[j] the word by the signs following-after^[k] them.

[A few Greek manuscripts have this “Short^[l] Ending” after verse 8, followed by the “long ending” above]

And they promptly reported all the things having been commanded them to the ones around Peter. And after these things, Jesus Himself also sent-forth the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation through them, from the east and as-far-as the west. Amen.