Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
34 Then Peter began to speak, `I really understand now. God does not love some people more than others.
35 But he takes anyone who obeys him. He takes anyone who does what is right. It does not matter to what nation they belong.
36 To the people of Israel God has sent the good news. He gives peace through Jesus Christ. He is Lord of all!
37 You yourselves know the story of what happened all through Judea. It started in Galilee after the baptism which John talked about.
38 God gave Jesus of Nazareth the Holy Spirit and power. Jesus went about doing good deeds. He healed all those who were held by the devil. God was with him.
39 We saw all the things which he did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And they hung him on a piece of wood and killed him.
40 On the third day, God raised him up to let people see him.
41 Not all the people saw him. But God had chosen us to see and to talk about him. We saw him. We ate and drank with him after he rose from death.
42 He told us to tell the people that God chose him to judge both the living people and the dead people.
43 All the prophets tell about him. They say, "Everyone who believes in him will have his wrong ways forgiven through his name." '
19 And if we have hope in Christ for our life in this world only, then we are the most unhappy of all people.
20 But Christ really has been raised from death. He was the first one to rise of all who have died.
21 It was a man who first brought death. So it was also a man who was first raised from death.
22 All people who are of Adam die. And so also, all people who belong to Christ will live.
23 But each one has his turn. Christ rose first. Then those who belong to Christ will rise when he comes again.
24 After that the end will come. Christ will hand over the ruling power to God the Father. Christ will stop all other rulers, and everyone who has any rights and power.
25 Christ must rule until God has all power over all his enemies.
26 Death is the last enemy to be destroyed.
34 Then Peter began to speak, `I really understand now. God does not love some people more than others.
35 But he takes anyone who obeys him. He takes anyone who does what is right. It does not matter to what nation they belong.
36 To the people of Israel God has sent the good news. He gives peace through Jesus Christ. He is Lord of all!
37 You yourselves know the story of what happened all through Judea. It started in Galilee after the baptism which John talked about.
38 God gave Jesus of Nazareth the Holy Spirit and power. Jesus went about doing good deeds. He healed all those who were held by the devil. God was with him.
39 We saw all the things which he did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And they hung him on a piece of wood and killed him.
40 On the third day, God raised him up to let people see him.
41 Not all the people saw him. But God had chosen us to see and to talk about him. We saw him. We ate and drank with him after he rose from death.
42 He told us to tell the people that God chose him to judge both the living people and the dead people.
43 All the prophets tell about him. They say, "Everyone who believes in him will have his wrong ways forgiven through his name." '
20 Mary Magdalene came to the grave on the first day of the week. It was early in the morning and not very light. She saw that the stone had been taken away from the grave.
2 So she ran and met Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus loved. She said to them, `They have taken the Lord out of the grave! We do not know where they have laid him!'
3 Then Peter and that other disciple also went to the grave.
4 Both of them ran. The other disciple ran faster than Peter and got to the grave first.
5 He bent down and looked in. He saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go inside.
6 Then Simon Peter came up behind him. He went into the grave and saw the linen cloths lying there.
7 He also saw the small cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus' head. It was not with the other cloths, but it was folded together by itself in another place.
8 Then the other disciple, who got there first, also went in. He saw and believed.
9 Until this time they did not understand the holy writings where it says, `He must rise from death.'
10 Then the disciples went away again to their own homes.
11 But Mary stood outside the grave crying. As she cried, she bent down and looked into the grave.
12 She saw two angels with white clothes on. They were sitting where Jesus' body had been. One sat at the head and one at the foot.
13 They said to her, `Woman, why are you crying?' She said to them, `They have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have laid him.'
14 When she had said this, she turned around. She saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.
15 Jesus said to her, `Woman, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?' She thought he was the man who took care of the garden. So she said to him, `Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him. I will take him away.'
16 Jesus said to her, `Mary.' She turned around again and said, `Master!'
17 Jesus said to her, `Do not hold me, because I have not yet gone up to my Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am going up to my Father. He is your Father also. I am going up to my God. He is your God also.'
18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples. She said, `I have seen the Lord!' And she told them what he had said to her.
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.
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