(~) Bible Readings for Easter Sunday



Acts 10:34-43
or Exodus 14:10-14,21-25;15:20-21
Colossians 3:1-4
or Acts 10:34-43
John 20:1-10(11-18)
or Matthew 28:1-10



First Lesson Acts 10:34-43

Then Peter began to speak to them: "I truly understand that God shows no
partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is
right is acceptable to him. You know the message he sent to the people of
Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ--he is Lord of all. That message
spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John
announced: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and
with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were
oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses to all that
he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging
him on a tree; but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to
appear, not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as
witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He
commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one
ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets
testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness
of sins through his name."

or

Old Testament Exodus 14:10-14,21-25;15:20-21

As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked back, and there were the
Egyptians advancing on them. In great fear the Israelites cried out to the
LORD. They said to Moses, "Was it because there were no graves in Egypt
that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done
to us, bringing us out of Egypt? Is this not the very thing we told you in
Egypt, `Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians'? For it would have
been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness."
But Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid, stand firm, and see the
deliverance that the LORD will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians
whom you see today you shall never see again. The LORD will fight for you,
and you have only to keep still."
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The LORD drove the sea
back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into dry land;
and the waters were divided. The Israelites went into the sea on dry
ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their
left. The Egyptians pursued, and went into the sea after them, all of
Pharaoh's horses, chariots, and chariot drivers. At the morning watch the
LORD in the pillar of fire and cloud looked down upon the Egyptian army,
and threw the Egyptian army into panic. He clogged their chariot wheels so
that