Bible Verses About Select Readings

Then Yeshua said to the head cohanim, the officers of the Temple guard and the elders who had come to seize him, “So you came out just as you would to the leader of a rebellion, with swords and clubs?

Every day I was there with you in the Temple court, yet you didn’t arrest me. But this is your hour — the hour when darkness rules.”

Having seized him, they led him away and brought him into the house of the cohen hagadol. Kefa followed at a distance;

but when they had lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Kefa joined them.

One of the servant girls saw him sitting in the light of the fire, stared at him and said, “This man also was with him.”

But he denied it: “Lady, I don’t even know him.”

A little later, someone else saw him and said, “You’re one of them too”; but Kefa said, “Man, I am not!”

About an hour later, another man asserted emphatically, “There can be no doubt that this fellow was with him, because he too is from the Galil!”

But Kefa said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” And instantly, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

The Lord turned and looked straight at Kefa; and Kefa remembered what the Lord had said, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”

And he went outside and cried bitterly.

but the next day, while it was still very early, they took the spices they had prepared, went to the tomb,

and found the stone rolled away from the tomb!

On entering, they discovered that the body of the Lord Yeshua was gone!

They were standing there, not knowing what to think about it, when suddenly two men in dazzlingly bright clothing stood next to them.

Terror-stricken, they bowed down with their faces to the ground. The two men said to them, “Why are you looking for the living among the dead?

He is not here; he has been raised. Remember how he told you while he was still in the Galil,

‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be executed on a stake as a criminal, but on the third day be raised again’?”

Then they remembered his words;

and, returning from the tomb, they told everything to the Eleven and to all the rest.

The women who told the emissaries these things were Miryam of Magdala, Yochanah, Miryam the mother of Ya‘akov, and the others in their circle.

But the emissaries didn’t believe them; in fact, they thought that what they said was utter nonsense!

However, Kefa got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping down, he saw only the burial cloths and went home wondering what had happened.

There was a man who had fallen sick. His name was El‘azar, and he came from Beit-Anyah, the village where Miryam and her sister Marta lived.

(This Miryam, whose brother El‘azar had become sick, is the one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)