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Lectionary Theme: Easter; Christ who defeated death and resurrected (End of the Great Lent)
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Isaiah 60:12-21 First Lesson
12. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
13. The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the pine, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will glorify where my feet rest.
14. The descendants of those who oppressed you shall come bending low to you, and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15. Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.
16. You shall suck the milk of nations, you shall suck the breasts of kings; and you shall know that I, the Lord, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
17. Instead of bronze I will bring gold, instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. I will appoint Peace as your overseer and Righteousness as your taskmaster.
18. Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. God the Glory of Zion
19. The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you by night; but the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
20. Your sun shall no more go down, or your moon withdraw itself; for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.
21. Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever. They are the shoot that I planted, the work of my hands, so that I might be glorified.
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1 Corinthians 15:42-58 Second Lesson
42. So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.
43. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
44. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.
45. Thus it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46. But it is not the spiritual that is first, but the physical, and then the spiritual.
47. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.
48. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven.
49. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.
50. What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51. Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed,
52. in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
54. When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
55. “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
56. The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58. Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
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1 Corinthians 15:20-28 Epistle
20. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died.
21. For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human being;
22. for as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ.
23. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
24. Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every ruler and every authority and power.
25. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
26. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
27. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is plain that this does not include the one who put all things in subjection under him.
28. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who put all things in subjection under him, so that God may be all in all.
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John 20:1-18 Gospel
1. Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
2. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”
3. Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb.
4. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
5. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in.
6. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there,
7. and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.
8. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed;
9. for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
10. Then the disciples returned to their homes. Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
11. But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb;
12. and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet.
13. They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” 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 and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.
15. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
16. Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher).
17. Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
18. Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she told them that he had said these things to her. Jesus Appears to the Disciples