Daily Readings - 04/04/2026

^1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

^1:2 Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, and God’s spirit hovered over the water.

^1:3 God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light.

^1:4 God saw that light was good, and God divided light from darkness.

^1:5 God called light ‘day’, and darkness he called ‘night’. Evening came and morning came: the first day.

^1:6 God said, ‘Let there be a vault[*b] in the waters to divide the waters in two’. And so it was.

^1:7 God made the vault, and it divided the waters above the vault from the waters under the vault.

^1:8 God called the vault ‘heaven’. Evening came and morning came: the second day.

^1:9 God said, ‘Let the waters under heaven come together into a single mass, and let dry land appear’. And so it was.

^1:10 God called the dry land ‘earth’ and the mass of waters ‘seas’, and God saw that it was good.

^1:11 God said, ‘Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees bearing fruit with their seed inside, on the earth’. And so it was.

^1:12 The earth produced vegetation: plants bearing seed in their several kinds, and trees bearing fruit with their seed inside in their several kinds. God saw that it was good.

^1:13 Evening came and morning came: the third day.

^1:14 God said, ‘Let there be lights in the vault of heaven to divide day from night, and let them indicate festivals, days and years.

^1:15 Let them be lights in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth.’ And so it was.

^1:16 God made the two great lights:[*c] the greater light to govern the day, the smaller light to govern the night, and the stars.

^1:17 God set them in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth,

^1:18 to govern the day and the night and to divide light from darkness. God saw that it was good.

^1:19 Evening came and morning came: the fourth day.

^1:20 God said, ‘Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth within the vault of heaven’. And so it was.

^1:21 God created great sea-serpents and every kind of living creature with which the waters teem, and every kind of winged creature. God saw that it was good.

^1:22 God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas; and let the birds multiply upon the earth’.

^1:23 Evening came and morning came: the fifth day.

^1:24 God said, ‘Let the earth produce every kind of living creature: cattle, reptiles,[*d] and every kind of wild beast’. And so it was.

^1:25 God made every kind of wild beast, every kind of cattle, and every kind of land reptile. God saw that it was good.

^1:26 God said, ‘Let us[*e] make man[*f] in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild beasts and all the reptiles that crawl upon the earth’.

^1:27 God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.

^1:28 God blessed them, saying to them, ‘Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and conquer it. Be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven and all living animals on the earth.’

^1:29 God said, ‘See, I give you all the seed-bearing plants that are upon the whole earth, and all the trees with seed-bearing fruit; this shall be your food.

^1:30 To all wild beasts, all birds of heaven and all living reptiles on the earth I give all the foliage of plants for food.’ And so it was.

^1:31 God saw all he had made, and indeed it was very good. Evening came and morning came: the sixth day.

^2:1 Thus heaven and earth were completed with all their array.

^2:2 On the seventh day God completed the work he had been doing. He rested on the seventh day after all the work he had been doing.

^103:1 Bless Yahweh, my soul, bless his holy name, all that is in me!

^103:2 Bless Yahweh, my soul, and remember all his kindnesses:

^103:3 in forgiving all your offences, in curing all your diseases,

^103:4 in redeeming your life from the Pit, in crowning you with love and tenderness,

^103:5 in filling your years with prosperity, in renewing your youth like an eagle’s[*a]

^103:6 Yahweh, who does what is right, is always on the side of the oppressed;

^103:7 he revealed his intentions to Moses, his prowess to the sons of Israel.

^103:8 Yahweh is tender and compassionate, slow to anger, most loving;

^103:9 his indignation does not last for ever, his resentment exists a short time only;

^103:10 he never treats us, never punishes us, as our guilt and our sins deserve.

^103:11 No less than the height of heaven over earth is the greatness of his love for those who fear him;

^103:12 he takes our sins farther away than the east is from the west.

^103:13 As tenderly as a father treats his children, so Yahweh treats those who fear him;

^103:14 he knows what we are made of, he remembers we are dust.

^103:15 Man lasts no longer than grass, no longer than a wild flower he lives,

^103:16 one gust of wind, and he is gone, never to be seen there again;

^103:17 yet Yahweh’s love for those who fear him lasts from all eternity and for ever, like his goodness to their children’s children,

^103:18 as long as they keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.

^103:19 Yahweh has fixed his throne in the heavens, his empire is over all.

^103:20 Bless Yahweh, all his angels, heroes mighty to enforce his word, attentive to his word of command.

^103:21 Bless Yahweh, all his armies, servants to enforce his will.

^103:22 Bless Yahweh, all his creatures in every part of his empire! Bless Yahweh, my soul.

^32:1 Happy the man whose fault is forgiven, whose sin is blotted out;

^32:2 happy the man whom Yahweh accuses of no guilt, whose spirit is incapable of deceit!

^32:3 All the time I kept silent, my bones were wasting away with groans, day in, day out;

^32:4 day and night your hand lay heavy on me; my heart grew parched as stubble in summer drought (Pause)

^32:5 At last I admitted to you I had sinned; no longer concealing my guilt, I said, ‘I will go to Yahweh and confess my fault’. And you, you have forgiven the wrong I did, have pardoned my sin. (Pause)

^32:6 That is why each of your servants prays to you in time of trouble; even if floods come rushing down, they will never reach him.

^32:7 You are a hiding place for me, you guard me when in trouble, you surround me with songs of deliverance. (Pause)

^32:8 I will instruct you, and teach you the way to go; I will watch over you and be your adviser.

^32:9 Do not be like senseless horse or mule that need bit and bridle to curb their spirit (to let you get near them).

^32:10 Many torments await the wicked, but grace enfolds the man who trusts in Yahweh.

^32:11 Rejoice in Yahweh, exult, you virtuous, shout for joy, all upright hearts.

^22:1 It happened some time later that God put Abraham to the test. ‘Abraham, Abraham’ he called. ‘Here I am’ he replied.

^22:2 ‘Take your son,’ God said ‘your only child Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah[*a]. There you shall offer him as a burnt offering, on a mountain I will point out to you.’

^22:3 Rising early next morning Abraham saddled his ass and took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He chopped food for the burnt offering and started on his journey to the place God had pointed out to him.

^22:4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

^22:5 Then Abraham said to his servants, ‘Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there; we will worship and come back to you.’

^22:6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering, loaded it, on Isaac, and carried in his own hands the fire and the knife. Then the two of them set out together.

^22:7 Isaac spoke to his father Abraham, ‘Father’ he said. ‘Yes, my son’ he replied. ‘Look,’ he said ‘here are the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?’

^22:8 Abraham answered, ‘My son, God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering’, Then the two of them went on together.

^22:9 When they arrived at the place God had pointed out to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his son Isaac and put him on the altar on top of the wood.

^22:10 Abraham stretched out his hand and seized the knife to kill his son.

^22:11 But the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven. ‘Abraham, Abraham’ he said. ‘I am here’ he replied.

^22:12 ‘Do not raise your hand against the boy’ the angel said. ‘Do not harm him, for now I know you fear God. You have not refused me your son, your only son.’

^22:13 Then looking up, Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns in a bush. Abraham took the ram and offered it as a burnt-offering in place of his son.

^22:14 Abraham called this place ‘Yahweh provides’, and hence the saying today: On the mountain Yahweh provides.

^22:15 The angel of Yahweh called Abraham a second time from heaven.

^22:16 ‘I swear by my own self – it is Yahweh who speaks – because you have done this, because you have not refused me your son, your only son,

^22:17 I will shower blessings on you, I will make your descendants as many as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants shall gain possession of the gates[*b] of their enemies.

^22:18 All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your descendants, as a reward for your obedience.’

^15:1 Yahweh, who has the right to enter your tent, or to live on your holy mountain?

^15:2 The man whose way of life is blameless, who always does what is right, who speaks the truth from his heart,

^15:3 whose tongue is not used for slander, who does no wrong to his fellow, casts no discredit on his neighbour,

^15:4 looks with contempt on the reprobate, but honours those who fear Yahweh; who stands by his pledge at any cost,

^15:5 does not ask interest on loans, and cannot be bribed to victimise the innocent. – If a man does all this, nothing can ever shake him.

^14:15 Yahweh said to Moses, ‘Why do you cry to me so? Tell the sons of Israel to march on.

^14:16 For yourself, raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and part it for the sons of Israel to walk through the sea on dry ground.

^14:17 I for my part will make the heart of the Egyptians so stubborn that they will follow them. So shall I win myself glory at the expense of Pharaoh, of all his army, his chariots, his horsemen.

^14:18 And when I have won glory for myself, at the expense of Pharaoh and his chariots and his army, the Egyptians will learn that I am Yahweh.’

^14:19 Then the angel of Yahweh, who marched at the front of the army of Israel, changed station and moved to their rear. The pillar of cloud changed station from the front to the rear of them, and remained there.

^14:20 It came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. The cloud was dark, and the night passed without the armies drawing any closer the whole night long.

^14:21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. Yahweh drove back the sea with a strong easterly wind all night, and he made dry land of the sea. The waters parted

^14:22 and the sons of Israel went on dry ground right into the sea, walls of water to right and to left of them.

^14:23 The Egyptians gave chase: after them they went, right into the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

^14:24 In the morning watch, Yahweh looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and of cloud, and threw the army into confusion.

^14:25 He so clogged their chariot wheels that they could scarcely make headway. ‘Let us flee from the Israelites,’ the Egyptians cried ‘Yahweh is fighting for them against the Egyptians!’

^14:26 ‘Stretch out your hand over the sea,’ Yahweh said to Moses ‘that the waters may flow back on the Egyptians and their chariots and their horsemen.’

^14:27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and, as day broke, the sea returned to its bed. The fleeing Egyptians marched right into it, and Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the very middle of the sea.

^14:28 The returning waters overwhelmed the chariots and the horsemen of Pharaoh’s whole army, which had followed the Israelites into the sea; not a single one of them was left.

^14:29 But the sons of Israel had marched through the sea on dry ground, walls of water to right and to left of them.

^14:30 That day, Yahweh rescued Israel from the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore.

^14:31 Israel witnessed the great act that Yahweh had performed against the Egyptians, and the people venerated Yahweh; they put their faith in Yahweh and in Moses, his servant.

^15:1 It was then that Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song in honour of Yahweh: ‘Yahweh I sing: he has covered himself in glory, horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.

^15:1 It was then that Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song in honour of Yahweh: ‘Yahweh I sing: he has covered himself in glory, horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.

^15:2 Yah is my strength, my song, he is my salvation. This is my God, I praise him; the God of my father, I extol him.

^15:3 Yahweh is a warrior; Yahweh is his name.

^15:4 The chariots and the army of Pharaoh he has hurled into the sea; the pick of his horsemen lie drowned in the Sea of Reeds.

^15:5 The depths have closed over them; they have sunk to the bottom like a stone.

^15:6 Your right hand, Yahweh, shows majestic in power, your right hand, Yahweh, shatters the enemy.

^15:7 So great your splendour, you crush your foes; you unleash your fury, and it devours them like stubble.

^15:8 A blast from your nostrils and the waters piled high; the waves stood upright like a dyke; in the heart of the sea the deeps came together.

^15:9 “I will give chase and overtake,” the enemy said “I shall share out the spoil, my soul will feast on it; I shall draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.”

^15:10 One breath of yours you blew, and the sea closed over them; they sank like lead in the terrible waters.

^15:11 Who among the gods is your like, Yahweh? Who is your like, majestic in holiness, terrible in deeds of prowess, worker of wonders?

^15:12 You stretched your right hand out, the earth swallowed them!

^15:13 By your grace you led the people you redeemed, by your strength you guided them to your holy house.

^15:14 Hearing of this, the peoples tremble; pangs seize on the inhabitants of Philistia.

^15:15 Edom’s chieftains are now dismayed, the princes of Moab fall to trembling, Canaan’s inhabitants are all unmanned.

^15:16 On them fall terror and dread; through the power of your arm they are still as stone as your people pass, Yahweh, as the people pass whom you purchased.

^15:17 You will bring them and plant them on the mountain that is your own, the place you have made your dwelling, Yahweh, the sanctuary, Yahweh, prepared by your own hands.

^15:18 Yahweh will be king for ever and ever.’

^54:5 For now your creator will be your husband, his name, Yahweh Sabaoth; your redeemer will be ‘the Holy One of Israel, he is called the God of the whole earth.

^54:6 Yes, like a forsaken wife, distressed in spirit, Yahweh calls you back. Does a man cast off the wife of his youth? says your God.

^54:7 I did forsake you for a brief moment, but with great love will I take you back.

^54:8 In excess of anger, for a moment I hid my face from you. But with everlasting love I have taken pity on you, says Yahweh, your redeemer.

^54:9 I am now as I was in the days of Noah when I swore that Noah’s waters should never flood the world again. So now I swear concerning my anger with you and the threats I made against you;

^54:10 for the mountains may depart, the hills be shaken, but my love for you will never leave you and my covenant of peace with you will never be shaken, says Yahweh who takes pity on you.

^54:11 Unhappy creature, storm-tossed, disconsolate, see, I will set your stones on carbuncles and your foundations on sapphires.

^54:12 I will make rubies your battlements, your gates crystal, and your entire wall precious stones.

^54:13 Your sons will all be taught by Yahweh. The prosperity of your sons will be great.

^54:14 You will be founded on integrity; remote from oppression, you will have nothing to fear; remote from terror, it will not approach you.

^29:1 Pay tribute to Yahweh, you sons of God,[*a] tribute to Yahweh of glory and power,

^29:2 tribute to Yahweh of the glory of his name, worship Yahweh in his sacred court.

^29:4 The voice of Yahweh in power! The voice of Yahweh in splendour!

^29:5 The voice of Yahweh shatters the cedars, Yahweh shatters the cedars of Lebanon,

^29:6 making Lebanon leap like a calf, Sirion[*b] like a young wild bull.

^29:7 The voice of Yahweh sharpens lightning shafts!

^29:8 The voice of Yahweh sets the wilderness shaking. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

^29:10 Yahweh sat enthroned for the Flood, Yahweh sits enthroned as a king for ever.

^29:11 Yahweh gives strength to his people, Yahweh blesses his people with peace.

^55:1 Oh, come to the water all you who are thirsty; though you have no money, come! Buy corn without money, and eat, and, at no cost, wine and milk.

^55:2 Why spend money on what is not bread, your wages on what fails to satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and you will have good things to eat and rich food to enjoy.

^55:3 Pay attention, come to me; listen, and your soul will live.

^55:4 See, I have made of you a witness to the peoples, a leader and a master of the nations.

^55:5 See, you will summon a nation you never knew, those unknown will come hurrying to you, for the sake of Yahweh your God, of the Holy One of Israel who will glorify you.

^55:6 Seek Yahweh while he is still to be found, call to him while he is still near.

^55:7 Let the wicked man abandon his way, the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn back to Yahweh who will take pity on him, to our God who is rich in forgiving;

^55:8 for my thoughts are not your thoughts, my ways not your ways – it is Yahweh who speaks.

^55:9 Yes, the heavens are as high above earth as my ways are above your ways, my thoughts above your thoughts.

^55:10 Yes, as the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth, making it yield and giving growth to provide seed for the sower and bread for the eating,

^55:11 so the word that goes from my mouth does not return to me empty, without carrying out my will and succeeding in what it was sent to do.

^12:2 See now, he is the God of my salvation I have trust now and no fear, for Yahweh is my strength, my song, he is my salvation.

^12:3 And you will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation.

^12:4 That day, you will say: Give thanks to Yahweh, call his name aloud. Proclaim his deeds to the people, declare his name sublime.

^12:5 Sing of Yahweh, for he has done marvellous things, let them be made known to the whole world.

^12:6 Cry out for joy and gladness, you dwellers in Zion, for great in the midst of you is the Holy One of Israel.

^3:4 Almighty Lord, God of Israel, hear the prayer of the dead of Israel,[*a] of the sons of those who have sinned against you and have not listened to the voice of the Lord their God, hence the disasters that have seized on us.

^3:9 Listen, Israel, to commands that bring life; hear, and learn what knowledge means.

^3:10 Why, Israel, why are you in the country of your enemies, growing older and older in an alien land,

^3:11 sharing defilement with the dead, reckoned with those who go to Sheol?

^3:12 Because you have forsaken the fountain of wisdom.

^3:13 Had you walked in the way of God, you would have lived in peace for ever.

^3:14 Learn where knowledge is, where strength, where understanding, and so learn where length of days is, where life, where the light of the eyes and where peace.

^3:15 But who has found out where she lives, who has entered her treasure house?

^18:1 I love you, Yahweh, my strength (my saviour, you rescue me from violence.)

^18:2 Yahweh is my rock and my bastion, my deliverer is my God. I take shelter in him, my rock, my shield, my horn of salvation, my stronghold and my refuge. From violence you rescue me.

^18:3 He is to be praised; on Yahweh I call and am saved from my enemies.

^18:4 The waves of death encircled me, the torrents of Belial burst on me;

^18:5 the cords of Sheol girdled me, the snares of death were before me.

^18:6 In my distress I called to Yahweh and to my God I cried; from his Temple he heard my voice, my cry came to his ears.

^18:7 Then the earth quivered and quaked, the foundations of the mountains trembled (they quivered because he was angry);

^18:8 from his nostrils a smoke ascended, and from his mouth a fire that consumed (live embers were kindled at it).

^18:9 He bent the heavens and came down, a dark cloud under his feet;

^18:10 he mounted a cherub and flew, and soared on the wings of the wind.

^18:11 Darkness he made a veil to surround him, his tent a watery darkness, dense cloud;

^18:12 before him a flash enkindled hail and fiery embers.

^18:13 Yahweh thundered from heaven, the Most High made his voice heard;

^18:14 he let his arrows fly and scattered them, launched the lightnings and routed them.

^18:15 The bed of the seas was revealed, the foundations of the world were laid bare, at your muttered threat, Yahweh, at the blast of your nostrils’ breath.

^18:16 He sends from on high and takes me, he draws me from deep waters,

^18:17 he delivers me from my powerful enemy, from a foe too strong for me.

^18:18 They assailed me on my day of disaster, but Yahweh was my support;

^18:19 he freed me, set me at large, he rescued me, since he loves me.

^18:20 Yahweh requites me as I act justly, as my hands are pure so he repays me,

^18:21 since I have kept the ways of Yahweh, nor fallen away from my God.

^18:22 His judgements are all before me, his statutes I have not put from me;

^18:23 I am blameless in his presence, I keep sin at arm’s length.

^18:24 And Yahweh repays me as I act justly, as my purity is in his sight.

^18:25 Faithful you are with the faithful, blameless with the blameless,

^18:26 pure with the one who is pure, but crafty with the devious,

^18:27 you save a people that is humble and humiliate eyes that are haughty.

^18:28 Yahweh, you yourself are my lamp, my God lights up my darkness;

^18:29 with you I storm the barbican, with my God I leap the rampart.

^18:30 This God, his way is blameless; the word of Yahweh is without dross. He it is who is the shield of all who take shelter in him.

^18:31 Who else is God but Yahweh, who else a rock save our God?

^18:32 This God who girds me with strength and makes my way without blame,

^18:33 who makes my feet like the hinds’ and holds me from falling on the heights,

^18:34 who trains my hands for battle, my arms to bend a bow of bronze.

^18:35 You give me your saving shield (your right hand upholds me), with care you train me,

^18:36 wide room you make for my steps under me, my feet have never faltered.

^18:37 I pursue my enemies and overtake them, nor turn back till an end is made of them;

^18:38 I strike them down, and they cannot rise, they fall, they are under my feet:

^18:39 You have girt me with strength for the fight, bent down my assailants beneath me,

^18:40 made my enemies turn their backs to me; and those who hate me I destroy.

^18:41 They cry out, there is no one to save, to Yahweh, but there is no reply;

^18:42 I crush them fine as dust before the wind, trample them like the mud of the streets.

^18:43 You deliver me from a people in revolt, you place me at the head of the nations, a people I did not know are now my servants,

^18:44 foreigners come wooing my favour, no sooner do they hear than they obey me,

^18:45 foreigners grow faint of heart, they come trembling out of their fastnesses.

^18:46 Life to Yahweh! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be the God of my salvation,

^18:47 the God who gives me vengeance and subjects the peoples to me,

^18:48 who rescues me from my raging enemies. who attack me, you deliver me from the man of violence.

^18:49 For this I will praise you, Yahweh, among the heathen and sing praise to your name.

^18:50 His king he saves and saves again, displays his love for his anointed, for David and his heirs for ever.

^41:1 Happy the man who cares for the poor and the weak: if disaster strikes, Yahweh will come to his help.

^41:2 Yahweh will guard him, give him life and happiness in the land; ah, do not let his enemies treat him as they please!

^41:3 Yahweh will be his comfort on his bed of sickness; most carefully you make his bed when he is sick.

^41:4 I for my part said, ‘Yahweh, take pity on me! Cure me, for I have sinned against you.’

^41:5 My enemies say of me with malice, ‘How long before he dies and his name perishes?’

^41:6 They visit me, their hearts full of spite, they offer hollow comfort, and go out to spread the news.

^41:7 All who hate me whisper to each other about me, reckoning I deserve the misery I suffer,

^41:8 ‘This sickness is fatal that has overtaken him, he is down at last, he will never get up again’.

^41:9 Even my closest and most trusted friend, who shared my table, rebels against me.

^41:10 But Yahweh, take pity on me! Raise me up, and I will pay them back;

^41:11 and by this I shall know that I enjoy your favour, if my enemy fails to triumph over me;

^41:12 and I, whom you uphold, go unscathed, set by you in your presence for ever.

^41:13 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from all eternity and for ever! Amen. Amen![*a]

^6:3 You have been taught that when we were baptised in Christ Jesus we were baptised in his death;

^6:4 in other words, when we were baptised we went into the tomb with him and joined him in death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s glory, we too might live a new life.

^6:5 If in union with Christ we have imitated his death, we shall also imitate him in his resurrection.

^6:6 We must realise that our former selves have been crucified with him to destroy this sinful body and to free us from the slavery of sin.

^6:7 When a Christian dies, of course, he has finished with sin.

^6:8 But we believe that having died with Christ we shall return to life with him:

^6:9 Christ, as we know, having been raised from the dead will never die again. Death has no power over him any more.

^6:10 When he died, he died, once for all, to sin, so his life now is life with God;

^6:11 and in that way, you too must consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.

^117:1 Praise Yahweh, all nations, extol him, all you peoples!

^117:2 For his love is strong, his faithfulness eternal.

^28:1 After the sabbath, and towards dawn on the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to visit the sepulchre.

^28:2 And all at once there was a violent earthquake, for the angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.

^28:3 His face was like lightning, his robe white as snow.

^28:4 The guards were so shaken, so frightened of him, that they were like dead men.

^28:5 But the angel spoke; and he said to the women, ‘There is no need for you to be afraid. I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

^28:6 He is not here, for he has risen, as he said he would. Come and see the place where he lay,

^28:7 then go quickly and tell his disciples, “He has risen from the dead and now he is going before you to Galilee; it is there you will see him”. Now I have told you.’

^28:8 Filled with awe and great joy the women came quickly away from the tomb and ran to tell the disciples.

^28:9 And there, coming to meet them, was Jesus. ‘Greetings’ he said. And the women came up to him and, falling down before him, clasped his feet.

^28:10 Then Jesus said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers that they must leave for Galilee; they will see me there’.