Today's Reading | April 23, 2025
John 20:1–18
Introduction John 20:1–18: Today’s reading is another account of Jesus’s resurrection. When Mary Magdalene goes to Jesus’s tomb, she sees that the stone has been rolled away. She runs to tell the disciples, believing that someone took Jesus’s body from the tomb. Peter and John come and see the empty tomb. Then Jesus appears to Mary and tells her that…
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