Friday 5 May 2023

26“Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham,and those among you who fear God,the word of this salvation is sent out to you.27For those who dwell in Jerusalem,and their rulers, because they didn’t know him,nor the voices of the prophetswhich are read every Sabbath,fulfilled them by condemning him.28Though they found no cause for death,they still asked Pilate to have him killed.29When they had fulfilled all thingsthat were written about him,they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.30But God raised him from the dead,31and he was seen for many days by thosewho came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem,who are his witnesses to the people.32We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,33that God has fulfilled this to us,their children, in that he raised up Jesus.As it is also written in the second psalm,

‘You are my Son.Today I have become your father.’

6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”7I will tell of the decree:The Lord said to me, “You are my son.Today I have become your father.

8Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance,the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.9You shall break them with a rod of iron.You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

10Now therefore be wise, you kings.Be instructed, you judges of the earth.11Serve the Lord with fear,and rejoice with trembling.

1“Don’t let your heart be troubled.Believe in God.Believe also in me.2In my Father’s house are many homes.If it weren’t so, I would have told you.I am going to prepare a place for you.3If I go and prepare a place for you,I will come again and will receive you to myself;that where I am, you may be there also.4You know where I go, and you know the way.”

5Thomas said to him,“Lord, we don’t know where you are going.How can we know the way?”

6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.No one comes to the Father, except through me.