Bible Verses About Select Readings

And Jesus said to those having come upon him--chief priests, and magistrates of the temple, and elders--`As upon a robber have ye come forth, with swords and sticks?

while daily I was with you in the temple, ye did stretch forth no hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of the darkness.'

And having taken him, they led and brought him to the house of the chief priest. And Peter was following afar off,

and they having kindled a fire in the midst of the court, and having sat down together, Peter was sitting in the midst of them,

and a certain maid having seen him sitting at the light, and having earnestly looked at him, she said, `And this one was with him!'

and he disowned him, saying, `Woman, I have not known him.'

And after a little, another having seen him, said, `And thou art of them!' and Peter said, `Man, I am not.'

And one hour, as it were, having intervened, a certain other was confidently affirming, saying, `Of a truth this one also was with him, for he is also a Galilean;'

and Peter said, `Man, I have not known what thou sayest;' and presently, while he is speaking, a cock crew.

And the Lord having turned did look on Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him--`Before a cock shall crow, thou mayest disown me thrice;'

and Peter having gone without, wept bitterly.

And on the first of the sabbaths, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bearing the spices they made ready, and certain others with them,

and they found the stone having been rolled away from the tomb,

and having gone in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

And it came to pass, while they are perplexed about this, that lo, two men stood by them in glittering apparel,

and on their having become afraid, and having inclined the face to the earth, they said to them, `Why do ye seek the living with the dead?

he is not here, but was raised; remember how he spake to you, being yet in Galilee,

saying--It behoveth the Son of Man to be delivered up to the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and the third day to rise again.'

And they remembered his sayings,

and having turned back from the tomb told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.

And it was the Magdalene Mary, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the other women with them, who told unto the apostles these things,

and their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they were not believing them.

And Peter having risen, did run to the tomb, and having stooped down he seeth the linen clothes lying alone, and he went away to his own home, wondering at that which was come to pass.

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister--

and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing--