Todays sermon was given by our priest in charge the Rev Nick Mwandia on Easter Day, the 31st March 2024. Download Mp3 HERE! Sermon starts at 3:40 John 20 v 1-18 The Empty Tomb 1 Early on the first day of … Continue reading →
Todays sermon was given by our priest in charge the Rev Nick Mwandia on Easter Day, the 31st March 2024.
Download Mp3 HERE!
Sermon starts at 3:40
John 20 v 1-18
The Empty Tomb
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.