This week’s Gospel: Easter Sunday

This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: Easter Sunday
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2008/Mar08.html
This Week's Gospel: Matt 28: 1 – 10.
(23rd-March-2008) Easter Sunday, Year A

He has risen from the dead and now he is going before you into Galilee.
This reading corresponds well with the caput given..The reading is harmonized primarily from Matthew and John, with consideable input from Luke, and a few verses of Mark.
CLXXIII. Ubi prima diæ sabbati suscitatur Ihesus a mortuis.
(Where on the first day of the week Jesus is raised from the dead.)

And in the end of the Sabbath, when it began to dawn on the first day of the week, when it was yet dark*,

Came Mary Magdalen and the other Mary and Salome to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

And the sun being now risen, they said one to another: Who shall roll us back the stone from the door of the sepulchre? For it was very great.


And behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and coming rolled back the stone.

And looking, they saw the stone rolled back from the sepulchre and an angel seated on it.

And his countenance was as lightning and his raiment as snow.
And for fear of him, the guards were struck with terror and became as dead men.

And the angel answering, said to the women: Fear not you: for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

He is not here. For he is risen, as he said. Come, and see the place where the Lord was laid.


And it came to pass, as they were astonished in their mind at this.

Behold, two men stood by them, in shining apparel.

And as they were afraid and bowed down their countenance towards the ground, they said unto them: Why seek you the living with the dead? He is not here, but is risen.

Remember how he spoke unto you, when he was yet in Galilee, saying that the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and the third day rise again.

And going quickly, tell ye his disciples that he is risen from the dead. And behold he will go before you into Galilee. There you shall see him. Lo, I have foretold it to you.


And they remembered his words, and they went out quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy, running to tell his disciples.

She ran therefore and cometh to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and saith to them: They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre: and I know not where they have laid him.


Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple: and they came to the sepulchre.

And they both ran together: and that other disciple did outrun Peter and came first to the sepulchre.

And when he stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying: but yet he went not in.

Then cometh Simon Peter, following him, and went into the sepulchre: and saw the linen cloths lying, and the napkin that had been about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but apart, wrapped up into one place.

Then that other disciple also went in, who came previously to the sepulchre: and he saw and believed: for as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. The disciples therefore departed again to their home.


But Mary Magdalen; out of whom he had cast seven devils, stood at the sepulchre without, weeping.

Now as she was weeping, a voice saith to her: Woman, why weepest thou? She replied: Because they have taken away my Lord: and I know not where they have laid him.

When she had thus said, she turned herself back and saw Jesus standing: and she knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith to her: Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?

She, thinking that it was the gardener, saith to him: Sir, if thou hast taken him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him: and I will take him away.

Jesus saith to her: Mary. She turning, saith to him: Rabboni (which is to say, Master).

Jesus saith to her: Do not touch me: for I am not yet ascended to my Father.

But go to my brethren and say to them: I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and to your God.

* This is strange, yet it is plain. It is now the practice among Jews to begin and end the day at sunset, yet here the Sabbath is deemed to end at sunrise. It is known that there were many sectarian disputes concerning the calendar, and here it seems that to play safe, the Sabbath was deemed to run from sunset on Friday to sunrise on Sunday, making the Sabbath a day of 36 hours.