Book of Common Prayer

²⁹ Or else what are the people who are baptized over the dead doing, if the dead do not rise at all? Why are they then baptized over the dead? ³⁰ Yea, and why do we stand in danger every hour? ³¹ As sure as our confidence which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I am dying day by day. ³² That I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, after the manner of men, what does it gain me if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die!

³³ Be not deceived: unwholesome talk corrupts good ways. ³⁴ Awake truly out of sleep, and do not sin. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your reproach.

³⁵ But someone will say, How do the dead arise? With what bodies do they come in? ³⁶ Foolish one, that which you sow is not quickened to life unless it dies. ³⁷ And what do you sow? You sow not the body that will be, but bare seed (I mean, of wheat or something else), ³⁸ and God gives it a body at his pleasure – to every seed a particular body.

³⁹ All flesh is not of the same kind, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another kind of flesh of animals, another kind of flesh of fishes, and another of birds. ⁴⁰ There are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies. But the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. ⁴¹ There is one kind of glory of the sun and another glory of the moon – and another glory of the stars, for one star differs from another in glory.

The resurrection of Christ. The high priests give the soldiers a large sum of money to say that Christ was stolen out of his grave. Christ appears to his disciples, and sends them forth to preach and to baptize.

28 At the close of the Sabbath day, which is in the dawn of the morrow after the Sabbath, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the sepulchre. ² And behold, there was a great earthquake. For the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it. ³ His countenance was like lightening and his raiment white as snow. ⁴ And for fear of him, the guards were overwhelmed and became as dead men.

⁵ The angel spoke and said to the women, Fear not: I know that you seek Jesus, who was crucified. ⁶ He is not here. He is risen, as he said. Come and see the place where the Lord was put. ⁷ And go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from death. And behold, he will go before you into Galilee; there you will see him. Lo, I have told you.

⁸ And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy, and did run to bring his disciples word. ⁹ And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All Hail! And they came and held him by the feet and worshipped him. ¹⁰ Then said Jesus to them, Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brethren to go into Galilee, and there they will see me.

¹¹ When they had gone, some of the guards went into the city and told to the high priests all the things that had happened. ¹² And they gathered them together with the elders and took counsel, and gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, ¹³ saying, Say that his disciples came by night and stole him away while you slept. ¹⁴ And if this comes to the governor’s ears, we will appease him and keep you out of trouble.

¹⁵ And the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story is circulated among the Jews to this day.

¹⁶ Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to a mountain where Jesus had directed them.