These posts contain the voices spoken in the scripture text of Easter. As you pray, listen carefully to these and see how much they echo your own thoughts on the Resurrection of Jesus.
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On the
evening of that first day of the week, when the
doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear
of the Jews,
Jesus
came and stood in their midst
and said
to them, “Peace be with you.”
When he
had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The
disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
Jesus
said to them again, “Peace be with you.
As the
Father has sent me, so I send you.”
And when
he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
“Receive
the Holy Spirit.
Whose
sins you forgive are forgiven them,
and
whose sins you retain are retained.”
Thomas,
called Didymus, one of the Twelve,
was not
with them when Jesus came.
So the
other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord.”
But he
said to them,
“Unless
I see the mark of the nails in his hands
and put
my finger into the nailmarks
and put
my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
Now a
week later his disciples were again inside
and
Thomas was with them.
Jesus
came, although the doors were locked,
and
stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.”
Then he
said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands, and
bring your hand and put it into my side, and do
not be unbelieving, but believe.”
Thomas
answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
Jesus
said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed
are those who have not seen and have believed.”
Now,
Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples
that are
not written in this book.
But
these are written that you may come to believe
that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that
through this belief you may have life in his name. Jn. 20:19-31
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