For you first, God raised up his servant and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways. Acts 3: 26 Thus it is written that the Messiah suffers and rises from the dead on the third day, and in his name repentance will be proclaimed to all nations for…[read more]
They were talking together about all these things that had happened. As they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them. Luke 24: 14-15 How does the community of believers come to know the meaning of those events surrounding the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and their experience of him?…[read more]
Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”;…[read more]
God raised this Jesus; of this we are all witnesses. Exalted at the right hand of God, he poured forth the promise of the Holy Spirit that he received from the Father, as you both see and hear. Acts 2: 32-3 “The Lord has been raised.” This was the common Easter greeting in the early…[read more]
We had all gone astray like sheep, each following his own way; but the Lord laid upon him the guilt of us all. Though he was harshly treated, he submitted and opened not his mouth; like a lamb led to the slaughter or a sheep before the shearers, he was silent and opened not his…[read more]
This day shall be a memorial feast for you, which all your generations shall celebrate with pilgrimage to the Lord, as a perpetual institution. Exodus 12: 14 “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also the the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is…[read more]
Then one of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said: “What are you willing to give me that I should hand him over to you?” They determined on thirty pieces of silver for him. Matthew 26: 14-15 In today’s first reading from Isaiah we hear: “The Lord…[read more]
When he [Judas] had left, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him at once. My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. You will look…[read more]
There, they made him a supper; Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at table with him. May took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. But Judas Iscariot,…[read more]
If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father. John 10: 37-8 In verse 22 of…[read more]
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