Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by Rev Cathy Pullinger on Easter Sunday 20/4/25.
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Sermon starts at 4:44
Acts 10 v 34-43
34
Then Peter began to speak: ‘I now realise how true it is that God does not
show favouritism
35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and
does what is right.
36 You know the message God sent to the people of Israel,
announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of
all.
37 You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea,
beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached –
38 how God
anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went
around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil,
because God was with him.
39
‘We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in
Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross,
40 but God raised him
from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen.
41 He was not seen
by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen – by us
who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
42 He commanded us
to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed
as judge of the living and the dead.
43 All the prophets testify about him that
everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.’
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Alleluia, alleluia
I am the first and the last, says the Lord, and the living one;
I was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore.
Alleluia
Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.
Glory to you, O Lord.
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John 20 v 1-18
1 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.)
10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.
11
Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look
into the tomb
12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had
been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
13
They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”
“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have
put him.”
14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she
did not realize that it was Jesus.
15
He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell
me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
16
Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means
“Teacher”).
17
Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father.
Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and
your Father, to my God and your God.’”
18
Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!”
And she told them that he had said these things to her.
