Wednesday, July 22, 2026

¹By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.

²I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.

³The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"

⁴I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, into the room of her who conceived me.

²God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

³So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

⁴Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

⁵So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

⁶My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

⁸For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

⁹My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

¹Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

²Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have laid him!"

¹¹But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,

¹²and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

¹³They asked her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have laid him."

¹⁴When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn't know that it was Jesus.

¹⁵Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."

¹⁶Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him, "Rabboni!" which is to say, "Teacher!"

¹⁷Jesus said to her, "Don't hold me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

¹⁸Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.