As my Father hath sent Me, even so send I you. – John 20:21. When the disciples came to rejoice at seeing the Lord in their midst, He repeated the words of greeting: “Peace be unto you!” And then He …
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Saturday of Easter Week
The Lord is risen indeed. – Luke 24:34. When the disciples, who walked to Emmaus, had recognized the Risen One, they rose up that same hour, and returned to Jerusalem with haste, and found the eleven gathered together, and them …
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Friday of Easter Week
And their eyes were opened, and they knew Him. – Luke 24:31. In the afternoon of Easter Day, two of the larger circle of disciples went from Jerusalem to a village called Emmaus, about a three hours’ walk. And …
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Thursday of Easter Week
And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not. – Luke 24:11. What became of the other women who had fled from the grave? As trembling they went their way, behold, Jesus met them, after …
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Wednesday of Easter Week
Rabboni. – John 20:16. Mary Magdalene stood without, at the sepulcher, weeping, and, as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the sepulcher, and saw two angels in white sitting, the one at the head and the other at …
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Tuesday of Easter Week
For as yet they knew not the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. —John 20:9. Mary Magdalene found Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus loved (John), and said to them: “They have taken away the Lord out …
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Monday of Easter Week
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. – I Corinthians 15:33. Is this a fitting text for Eastertide? It seems not. But learn what happened on Easter Day. Some of the guards, on recovering from their faint and fright …
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Easter Sunday
He is risen. – Matthew 28:6. #118 – Christ’s Resurrection When it began to dawn on Easter Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, and Joanna, and a small company of other women that came …
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Holy Saturday-Easter Eve
Neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption. – Psalm 16:10. On the day that followed the day of the Preparation, hence on the Passover Sabbath, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate, saying: “Sir, we …
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Good Friday
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. – Isaiah 26:20. Jesus had died upon the cross. What did …
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