Catholic Funeral Readings: The Complete Official List

43And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection.

44(For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead,)

45And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them.

46It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.

1Then Job answered, and said:

23Who will grant me that my words may be written? who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?

24With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone?

25For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.

26And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.

27Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.

1But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them.

2In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery:

3And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are in peace.

4And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality.

5Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself.

6As gold in the furnace, he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust, he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them.

7The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds.

8They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.

9They that trust in him shall understand the truth: and they that are faithful in love, shall rest in him: for grace and peace are to his elect.

7But the just man, if he be prevented with death, shall be in rest.

8For venerable old age is not that of long time, nor counted by the number of years: but the understanding of a man is grey hairs.

9And a spotless life is old age.

10He pleased God, and was beloved, and living among sinners, he was translated.

11He was taken away, lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul.

12For the bewitching of vanity obscureth good things, and the wandering of concupiscence overturneth the innocent mind.

13Being made perfect in a short space, he fulfilled a long time.

14For his soul pleased God: therefore he hastened to bring him out of the midst of iniquities: but the people see this, and understand not, nor lay up such things in their hearts:

15That the grace of God, and his mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect to his chosen.

6And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people in this mountain, a feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat things full of marrow, of wine purified from the lees.

7And he shall destroy in this mountain the face of the bond with which all people were tied, and the web that he began over all nations.

8He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God shall wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he shall take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

9And they shall say in that day: Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord, we have patiently waited for him, we shall rejoice and be joyful in his salvation.

17Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.

18Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.

19Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.

20Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.

21Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.

22Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.

23Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.

24Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.

25Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

26Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.

1But at that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people: and a time shall come, such as never was from the time that nations began, even until that time. And at that time shall thy people be saved, every one that shall be found written in the book.

2And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it always.

3But they that are learned, shall shine as the brightness of the firmament: and they that instruct many to justice, as stars for all eternity.

34And Peter opening his mouth, said: in very deed I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons.

35But in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh justice is acceptable to him.

36God sent the word to the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all).

37You know the word which hath been published through all Judea: for it began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached.

38Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

39And we are witnesses of all things that he did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem: whom they killed, hanging him upon a tree.

40Him God raised up the third day and gave him to be made manifest,

41Not to all the people, but to witnesses preordained by God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him, after he arose again from the dead.

42And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that it is he who was appointed by God to be judge of the living and of the dead.

43To him all the prophets give testimony, that by his name all receive remission of sins, who believe in him.

13And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours. For their works follow them.

11And I saw a great white throne and one sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away: and there was no place found for them

12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of the throne. And the books were opened: and another book was opened, which was the book of life. And the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

13And the sea gave up the dead that were in it: and death and hell gave up their dead that were in them. And they were judged, every one according to their works.

14And hell and death were cast into the pool of fire. This is the second death.

15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the pool of fire.

1I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more.

1I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more.

2And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

3And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: Behold the tabernacle of God with men: and he will dwell with them. And they shall be his people: and God himself with them shall be their God.

4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and death shall be no more. Nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any more, for the former things are passed away.

5And he that sat on the throne, said: Behold, I make all things new. And he said to me: Write. For these words are most faithful and true.

6And he said to me: It is done. I am Alpha and Omega: the Beginning and the End. To him that thirsteth, I will give of the fountain of the water of life, freely.

7He that shall overcome shall possess these things. And I will be his God: and he shall be my son.

1A psalm for David. The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.

2He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment:

3He hath converted my soul. He hath led me on the paths of justice, for his own name's sake.

4For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me.

5Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me. Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebreateth me, how goodly is it!

6And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.

6Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world.

7The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember. According to thy mercy remember thou me: for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.

17The troubles of my heart are multiplied: deliver me from my necessities.

18See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.

20Keep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I have hoped in thee.

21The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.

1The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?

4One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.

7Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: have mercy on me and hear me.

8My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: thy face, O Lord, will I still seek.

9Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy servant. Be thou my helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O God my Saviour.

13I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

14Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

2As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul panteth after thee, O God.

3My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?

5These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God: With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one feasting.

3Sent forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.

4And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth.

5To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?

2O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!

3In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in the sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory.

4For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips will praise.

5Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands.

6Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.

8Because thou hast been my helper. And I will rejoice under the cover of thy wings:

9My soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right hand hath received me.

8The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and plenteous in mercy.

10He hath not dealt with us according to our sins: nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

13As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him:

14For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:

15Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.

16For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more.

17But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity upon them that fear him: And his justice unto children's children,

18To such as keep his covenant, And are mindful of his commandments to do them.

5The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.

6The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was humbled, and he delivered me.

1I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have been humbled exceedingly.

2I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.

6Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

7O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:

1A gradual canticle. I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the house of the Lord.

2Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem.

4For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.

5Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of David.

6Pray ye for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: and abundance for them that love thee.

7Let peace be in thy strength: and abundance in thy towers.

8For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace of thee.

9Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good things for thee.

1A gradual canticle. Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord:

2Lord, hear my voice. Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.

3If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.

4For with thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of thy law, I have waited for thee, O Lord. My soul hath relied on his word:

5my soul hath hoped in the Lord.

6From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord.

7Because with the Lord there is mercy: and with him plentiful redemption.

8And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

1A psalm of David, when his son Absalom pursued him. Hear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth: hear me in thy justice.

2And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

5I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I meditated upon the works of thy hands.

6I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.

7Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

8Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee have I hoped. Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: for I have lifted up my soul to thee.

10Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God. Thy good spirit shall lead me into the right land:

5And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us.

6For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?

7For scarce for a just man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.

8But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time.

9Christ died for us. Much more therefore, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him.

10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son: much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

11And not only so: but also we glory in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.

17For if by one man's offence death reigned through one; much more they who receive abundance of grace and of the gift and of justice shall reign in life through one, Jesus Christ.

18Therefore, as by the offence of one, unto all men to condemnation: so also by the justice of one, unto all men to justification of life.

19For as by the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners: so also by the obedience of one, many shall be made just.

20Now the law entered in that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace did more abound.

21That as sin hath reigned to death: so also grace might reign by justice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

3Know you not that all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are baptized in his death?

4For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.

5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.

7For he that is dead is justified from sin.

8Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ.

9Knowing that Christ, rising again from the dead, dieth now no more. Death shall no more have dominion over him.

14For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

15For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear: but you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba (Father).

16For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God.

17And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.

18For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come that shall be revealed in us.

19For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God.

20For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope.

21Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

22For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain, even till now.

23And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit: even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body.

31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?

32He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?

33Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that justifieth:

34Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died: yea that is risen also again, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

35Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword?

37But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us.

38For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might,

39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

7For none of us liveth to himself: and no man dieth to himself.

8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: or whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

9For to this end Christ died and rose again: that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

10But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? Or thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

11For it is written: As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to God.

12Therefore every one of us shall render account to God for himself.

20But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep:

21For by a man came death: and by a man the resurrection of the dead.

22And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.

23But every one in his own order: the firstfruits, Christ: then they that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming.

24Afterwards the end: when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God and the Father: when he shall have brought to nought all principality and power and virtue.

25For he must reign, until he hath put all his enemies under his feet.

26And the enemy, death, shall be destroyed last: For he hath put all things under his feet. And whereas he saith:

27All things are put under him; undoubtedly, he is excepted, who put all things under him.

28And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then the Son also himself shall be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

51Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again: but we shall not all be changed.

52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again incorruptible. And we shall be changed.

53For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortal must put on immortality.

54And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

55O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

56Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.

57But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

14Knowing that he who raised up Jesus will raise us up also with Jesus and place us with you.

15For all things are for your sakes: that the grace, abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.

16For which cause we faint not: but though our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

17For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.

18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal: but the things which are not seen, are eternal.

1For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

1For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

6Therefore having always confidence, knowing that while we are in the body we are absent from the Lord.

7(For we walk by faith and not by sight.)

8But we are confident and have a good will to be absent rather from the body and to be present with the Lord.

9And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him.

10For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil.

20But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ,

21Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself.

12And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.

13For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.

14For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.

15For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven with commandment and with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God: and the dead who are in Christ shall rise first.

16Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air: and so shall we be always with the Lord.

17Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.

8Be mindful that the Lord Jesus Christ is risen again from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel:

9Wherein I labour even unto bands, as an evildoer. But the word of God is not bound.

10Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with heavenly glory.

11A faithful saying: for if we be dead with him, we shall live also with him.

12If we suffer, we shall also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.

13If we believe not, he continueth faithful, he cannot deny himself.

1Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him.

2Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.

14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

15Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself.

16In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

1And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set down, his disciples came unto him.

2And opening his mouth he taught them, saying:

3Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.

5Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

6Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.

7Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

8Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God.

9Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

10Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

11Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake:

12Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

25At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones.

26Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.

27All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.

28Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you.

29Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls.

30For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.

1Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.

2And five of them were foolish and five wise.

3But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them.

4But the wise took oil in their vessels with the lamps.

5And the bridegroom tarrying, they all slumbered and slept.

6And at midnight there was a cry made: Behold the bridegroom cometh. Go ye forth to meet him.

7Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.

8And the foolish said to the wise: Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out.

9The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for us and for you, go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves.

10Now whilst they went to buy the bridegroom came: and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage. And the door was shut.

11But at last came also the other virgins, saying: Lord, Lord, open to us.

12But he answering said: Amen I say to you, I know you not.

13Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.

31And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty.

32And all nations shall be gathered together before him: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats:

33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left.

34Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

35For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:

36Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me.

37Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry and fed thee: thirsty and gave thee drink?

38Or when did we see thee a stranger and took thee in? Or naked and covered thee?

39Or when did we see thee sick or in prison and came to thee?

40And the king answering shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.

41Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels.

42For I was hungry and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty and you gave me not to drink.

43I was a stranger and you took me not in: naked and you covered me not: sick and in prison and you did not visit me.

44Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to thee?

45Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen: I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me.

46And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

33And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole earth until the ninth hour.

34And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? Which is, being interpreted: My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me?

35And some of the standers by hearing, said: Behold he calleth Elias.

36And one running and filling a sponge with vinegar and putting it upon a reed, gave him to drink, saying: Stay, let us see if Elias come to take him down.

37And Jesus, having cried out with a loud voice, gave up the ghost.

38And the veil of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom.

39And the centurion who stood over against him, seeing that crying out in this manner he had given up the ghost. said: Indeed this man was the son of God.

1And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.

2And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they come to the sepulchre, the sun being now risen.

3And they said one to another: Who shall roll us back the stone from the door of the sepulchre?

4And looking, they saw the stone rolled back. For it was very great.

5And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed with a white robe: and they were astonished.

6Who saith to them: Be not affrighted. you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen: he is not here. Behold the place where they laid him.

11And it came to pass afterwards that he went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great multitude.

12And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her.

13Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, he said to her: Weep not.

14And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, arise.

15And he that was dead sat up and begun to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

16And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God saying: A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his people.

17And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judea and throughout all the country round about.

35Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands.

36And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.

37Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them.

38And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so, blessed are those servants.

39But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open.

40Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not the Son of man will come.

33And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, they crucified him there: and the robbers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

39And one of those robbers who were hanged blasphemed him, saying: If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.

40But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou fear God, seeing; thou art under the same condemnation?

41And we indeed justly: for we receive the due reward of our deeds. But this man hath done no evil.

42And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy kingdom.

43And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee: This day thou shalt be with me in paradise.

44And it was almost the sixth hour: and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

45And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

46And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost.

50And behold there was a man named Joseph who was a counsellor, a good and a just man,

52This man went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus.

53And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid.

1And on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

2And they found the stone rolled back from the sepulchre.

3And going in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

4And it came to pass, as they were astonished in their mind at this, behold, two men stood by them, in shining apparel.

5And as they were afraid and bowed down their countenance towards the ground, they said unto them: Why seek you the living with the dead?

6He is not here, but is risen. Remember how he spoke unto you, when he was yet in Galilee,

13And behold, two of them went, the same day, to a town which was sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, named Emmaus.

14And they talked together of all these things which had happened.

15And it came to pass that while they talked and reasoned with themselves, Jesus himself also, drawing near, went with them.

16But their eyes were held, that they should not know him.

17And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one with another as you walk and are sad?

18And the one of them, whose name was Cleophas, answering, said to him: Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things that have been done there in these days?

19To whom he said: What things? And they said: Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in work and word before God and all the people.

20And how our chief priests and princes delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him.

21But we hoped that it was he that should have redeemed Israel. And now besides all this, to-day is the third day since these things were done.

22Yea and certain women also of our company affrighted us who, before it was light, were at the sepulchre,

23And not finding his body, came, saying that they had all seen a vision of angels, who say that he is alive.

24And some of our people went to the sepulchre and found it so as the women had said: but him they found not.

25Then he said to them: O foolish and slow of heart to believe in all things, Which the prophets have spoken.

26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and so, to enter into his glory?

27And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things that were concerning him.

28And they drew nigh to the town whither they were going: and he made as though he would go farther.

29But they constrained him, saying: Stay with us, because it is towards evening and the day is now far spent. And he went in with them.

30And it came to pass, whilst he was at table with them, he took bread and blessed and brake and gave to them.

31And their eyes were opened: and they knew him. And he vanished out of their sight.

32And they said one to the other: Was not our heart burning within us, whilst he spoke in the way and opened to us the scriptures?

33And rising up, the same hour, they went back to Jerusalem: and they found the eleven gathered together, and those that were with them,

34Saying: The Lord is risen indeed and hath appeared to Simon.

35And they told what things were done in the way: and how they knew him in the breaking of bread.

24Amen, amen, I say unto you that he who heareth my word and believeth him that sent me hath life everlasting: and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death to life.

25Amen, amen, I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

26For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given to the Son also to have life in himself.

27And he hath given him power to do judgment, because he is the Son of man.

28Wonder not at this: for the hour cometh wherein all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God.

29And they that have done good things shall come forth unto the resurrection of life: but they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment.

37All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me: and him that cometh to me, I will not cast out.

38Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me.

39Now this is the will of the Father who sent me: that of all that he hath given me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again in the last day.

40And this is the will of my Father that sent me: that every one who seeth the Son and believeth in him may have life everlasting. And I will raise him up in the last day.

51I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

52If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.

53The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

54Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.

55He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.

56For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.

57He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him.

58As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.

17Jesus therefore came: and found that he had been four days already in the grave.

18(Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.)

19And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

20Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus was come, went to meet him: but Mary sat at home.

21Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

22But now also I know that whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.

23Jesus saith to her: Thy brother shall rise again.

24Martha saith to him: I know that he shall rise again, in the resurrection at the last day.

25Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:

26And every one that liveth and believeth in me shall not die for ever. Believest thou this?

27She saith to him: Yea, Lord, I have believed that thou art Christ, the Son of the living God, who art come into this world.

32When Mary therefore was come where Jesus was, seeing him, she fell down at his feet and saith to him. Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

33Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews that were come with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and troubled himself,

34And said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and see.

35And Jesus wept.

36The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him.

37But some of them said: Could not he that opened the eyes of the man born blind have caused that this man should not die?

38Jesus therefore again groaning in himself, cometh to the sepulchre. Now it was a cave; and a stone was laid over it.

39Jesus saith: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith to him: Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he is now of four days.

40Jesus saith to her: Did not I say to thee that if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?

41They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifting up his eyes, said: Father, I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me.

42And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people who stand about have I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

43When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth.

44And presently he that had been dead came forth, bound feet and hands with winding bands. And his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said to them: Loose him and let him go.

45Many therefore of the Jews, who were come to Mary and Martha and had seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him.

23But Jesus answered them, saying: The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.

24Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die,

25Itself remaineth alone. But if it die it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it and he that hateth his life in this world keepeth it unto life eternal.

26If any man minister to me, let him follow me: and where I am, there also shall my minister be. If any man minister to me, him will my Father honour.

27Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour.

28Father, glorify thy name. A voice therefore came from heaven: I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.

1Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also in me.

2In my Father's house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you.

3And if I shall go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself: that where I am, you also may be.

4And whither I go you know: and the way you know.

5Thomas saith to him: Lord, we know not whither thou goest. And how can we know the way?

6Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.

24Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.

25Just Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee. And these have known that thou hast sent me.

26And I have made known thy name to them and will make it known: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

17And bearing his own cross, he went forth to the place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.

18Where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the midst.

25Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen.

26When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.

27After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own.

28Afterwards, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said: I thirst.

29Now there was a vessel set there, full of vinegar. And they, putting a sponge full of vinegar about hyssop, put it to his mouth.

30Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is consummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost.

31Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve), that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that was a great sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken: and that they might be taken away.

32The soldiers therefore came: and they broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him.

33But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

34But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side: and immediately there came out blood and water.

35And he that saw it hath given testimony: and his testimony is true. And he knoweth that he saith true: that you also may believe.

36For these things were done that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him.

37And again another scripture saith: They shall look on him whom they pierced.

38And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (because he was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews), besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave leave. He came therefore and took away the body of Jesus.

39And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.