Reading for Today: Matthew 28:1-20
Matthew 28:1-10
Dawn was breaking on the first day of the week; the sabbath was over. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary had come to look at the tomb, when suddenly there was a great earthquake. An angel of the Lord came down from heaven. He came to the stone, rolled it away, and sat down on top of it. Looking at him was like looking at lightning, and his clothes were white, like snow. The guards trembled with terror at him, and became like corpses themselves.
“Don’t be afraid,” …

Reading for Today: Matthew 27:57-66
Matthew 27:57-66
When evening came, a rich man from Arimathea arrived. He was called Joseph, and he too was a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and requested the body of Jesus. Pilate gave the order that it should be given to him.
So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth. He laid it in his own tomb, which he had carved out of the rock. Then he rolled a large stone across the doorway of the tomb and went away.
Mary Magdalene was there, …

Reading for Today: Matthew 27:33-56
Matthew 27:33-56
When they came to the place called Golgotha which means Skull Place, they gave him a drink of wine mixed with bitter herbs. When he tasted it, he refused to drink it.
They they crucified him. They divided up his clothes by casting lots, and they sat down and kept watch over him there. And they placed the written charge above his head: “This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.”
Then they crucified two brigands alongside him, one on his right and one on his left.
The people who …

Reading for Today: Matthew 27:1-32
Matthew 27:1-32
When dawn broke, all the chief priests and elders of the people held a council meeting about Jesus, in order to have him put to death. They tied him up, took him off, and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.
Meanwhile Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that he had been condemned, and was filled with remorse. he took the thirty pieces of silver back to the high priests and elders.
“I’ve sinned!” he said. “I betrayed an innocent man, and now I’ve got his blood on my …

Reading for Today: Matthew 26:57-75
Matthew 26:57-75
The people who had arrested Jesus took him off to Caiaphas the high priest. The scribes and elders had already gathered at his house. Peter, however, followed him at some distance, all the way to the high priest’s residence. He went in and sat with the servants, to see how things would work out.
The high priest and the whole council tried to produce false evidence against Jesus, to frame a capital charge and have him killed. But even though they brought in plenty of lying witnesses, they …

Reading for Today: Matthew 26:36-56
Matthew 26:36-56
So Jesus went with them to the place called Gethsemane.
“You sit here,” he said to the disciples, “while I go over there and pray.”
He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him, and began to be very upset and distressed.
“My soul is overwhelmed with grief,” he said, “even to death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”
Then, going a little further on, he fell on his face and prayed.
“My father,” he said, “if it’s possible – please, please let this cup go away from me! …

Reading for Today: Matthew 26:14-35
Matthew 26:14-35
Then one of the Twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests.
“What will you give me,” he said, “to hand him over to you?’
They settled the deal with him at thirty pieces of silver. From that moment on, he was watching for an opportunity to hand him over.
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples said to Jesus, “Where do you want us to get the Passover ready for you to eat it?”
“Go into the city,” he said, “to a certain man, …

Reading for Today: Psalm 31:9-16
Psalm 31:9-16
Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am in distress;
my eyes grow weak with sorrow,
my soul and body with grief.
My life is consumed by anguish
and my years by groaning;
my strength fails because of my affliction,
and my bones grow weak.
Because of all my enemies,
I am the utter contempt of my neighbors
and an object of dread to my closest friends—
those who see me on the street flee from me.
I am forgotten as though I were dead;
I have …

Reading for Today: Matthew 26:14-27:66
Matthew 26:14-27:66
Then one of the Twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests.
“What will you give me,” he said, “to hand him over to you?’
They settled the deal with him at thirty pieces of silver. From that moment on, he was watching for an opportunity to hand him over.
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples said to Jesus, “Where do you want us to get the Passover ready for you to eat it?”
“Go into the city,” he said, “to a certain man, …

Reading for Today: Matthew 26:1-13
Matthew 26:1-13
When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, “In two days’ time, as you know, it’ll be Passover! That’s when the son of man will be handed over to be crucified.”
Then the chief priests got together with the elders of the people, in the official residence of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. They plotted how to capture Jesus by some trick, and kill him.
“We’d better not try anything at the feast,” they said. “We don’t want the people to riot.”
While Jesus …