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Weekly Readings

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EASTER – April 20, 2025

First Lesson
Isaiah 65:17-25

New Heavens and a New Earth

17 “For behold, I create new heavens
    and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
    or come into mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
    in that which I create;
for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
    and her people to be a gladness.
19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem
    and be glad in my people;
no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
    and the cry of distress.
20 No more shall there be in it
    an infant who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for the young man shall die a hundred years old,
    and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 They shall build houses and inhabit them;
    they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat;
for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
    and my chosen shall long enjoy[a] the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labor in vain
    or bear children for calamity,[b]
for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
    and their descendants with them.
24 Before they call I will answer;
    while they are yet speaking I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
    the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
    and dust shall be the serpent’s food.
They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:22 Hebrew shall wear out
  2. Isaiah 65:23 Or for sudden terror

Second Lesson

1 Corinthians 15:19-26

19 If in Christ we have hope[a] in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.

20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule 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.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 15:19 Or we have hoped

Gospel

Luke 24:1-12

The Resurrection

24 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. 5 And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.” 8 And they remembered his words, 9 and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, 11 but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. 12 But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.

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Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version.  Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service. English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible. ESV® Text Edition: 2018. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

Weekly Bible Readings

April 2025

April 6
Fifth S. in Lent   
First Lesson: Isaiah 43:16–21
Psalm 126
Second Lesson: Phil. 3:(4b–7) 8–14
Gospel: Luke 20:9–20

HOLY WEEK   
April 13             
Palm Sunday (Palmarum)  
First Lesson: Deut. 32:36–39
Psalm 118:19–29 or Psalm 31:9–16
Second Lesson: Phil. 2:5–11
John 12:12–19 (Procession)
Gospel: Luke 22:1–23:56 or Luke 23:1–56 or John 12:20–43

April 17             
Holy (Maundy) Thursday   
First Lesson: Jer. 31:31–34 or Ex. 12:1–14
Psalm 116:12–19
Second Lesson: Heb. 10:15–25 or 1 Cor. 11:23–32
Gospel: Luke 22:7–20 or John 13:1–17, 31b–35

April 18             
Good Friday    
First Lesson: Isaiah 52:13–53:12
Psalm 22 or Psalm 31
Second Lesson: Heb. 4:14–16; 5:7–9
Gospel: John 18:1–19:42 or John 19:17–30

EASTER             
April 20
The Resurrection of Our Lord (Sunrise)  
First Lesson: Job 19:23–27
Psalm 118:15–29
Second Lesson: 1 Cor. 15:51–57
Gospel: John 20:1–18

The Resurrection of Our Lord
First Lesson: Isaiah 65:17–25
Psalm 16
Second Lesson: 1 Cor. 15:19–26
Gospel: Luke 24:1–12

April 27             
Second S. of Easter  
First Lesson: Acts 5:12–20 (21–32)
Psalm 148
Second Lesson: Rev. 1:4–18
Gospel: John 20:19–31