Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹² When Peter saw this, he addressed the people, “You Israelites, why are you amazed at this, and why do you look so intently at us as if we had made him walk by our own power or piety?^{(A) 13} The God of Abraham, [the God] of Isaac, and [the God] of Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified^[a] his servant Jesus whom you handed over and denied in Pilate’s presence, when he had decided to release him.^{(B) 14} You denied the Holy and Righteous One^[b] and asked that a murderer be released to you.^{(C) 15 [c]}The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses.^{(D) 16} And by faith in his name, this man, whom you see and know, his name has made strong, and the faith that comes through it has given him this perfect health, in the presence of all of you. ¹⁷ Now I know, brothers, that you acted out of ignorance,^[d] just as your leaders did;^{(E) 18} but God has thus brought to fulfillment what he had announced beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets,^[e] that his Messiah would suffer.^{(F) 19} Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away,^(G)

Psalm 4^[a]

Trust in God

¹ For the leader;^[b] with stringed instruments. A psalm of David.

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^1 [a]See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.^{(A) 2} Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed^[b] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.^{(B) 3} Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure.^(C)

Avoiding Sin. ⁴ Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness.^{[c] 5} You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.^{(D) 6} No one who remains in him sins; no one who sins has seen him or known him. ⁷ Children, let no one deceive you. The person who acts in righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.

The Appearance to the Disciples in Jerusalem. ^36 [a]While they were still speaking about this,^(A) he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.”^{(B) 37} But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost.^{(C) 38} Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? ^39 [b]Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.” ^40 (D)And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. ⁴¹ While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” ⁴² They gave him a piece of baked fish;^{(E) 43} he took it and ate it in front of them.

⁴⁴ He said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.”^{(F) 45} Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures.^{(G) 46 [c]}And he said to them,^(H) “Thus it is written that the Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day ⁴⁷ and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.^{(I) 48} You are witnesses of these things.^(J)