Book of Common Prayer

⁵¹ Behold, I show you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, ⁵² and that in a moment and in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will blow, and the dead will rise incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruptibility, and this mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴ When this corruptible has put on incorruptibility, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is consumed into victory.

⁵⁵ Death, where is your sting? Hell, where is your victory? ⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, who has given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵⁸ Therefore, my dear brethren, be steadfast and unmoveable, always rich in the works of the Lord, because you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

The women come to the grave. Christ appears to the two disciples on their way to Emmaus, stands in the midst of his disciples, opens their understanding in the scriptures, gives them a charge, and ascends up to heaven.

24 On the morrow after the Sabbath, early in the morning, the women went to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared and other women with them. ² And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre, ³ and went in, but did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. ⁴ And it happened as they wondered at this, behold, two men stood by them in shining vestures.

⁵ And as the women became afraid and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said to them, Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen. ⁶ Remember how he spoke to you when he was yet with you in Galilee, ⁷ saying that the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?

⁸ And they remembered his words, ⁹ and returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. ¹⁰ It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary Jacobi, and others that were with them, who told these things to the apostles. ¹¹ But their words seemed to them like vain things, and they did not believe them.

¹² Then Peter arose and ran to the sepulchre, and stooped in and saw the linen cloths laid by themselves. And he departed, wondering in himself at that which had happened.