Scripture of the week
2nd - 8th April: John 20; 1 - 9
This Sunday Rupert Ward will be speaking from John 20: 1-9, the story of the Empty Tomb.
You might like to take some time to read this story, using your imagination.
- What strikes you afresh?
- On Easter Sunday, we are considering new beginning. What new beginnings do you see in this story?
- What was that like for the people involved?
- How might that help us with new beginnings in our life?
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
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