May 4th, 2025, 3rd Sunday of Easter.

A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.

When the captain and the court officers had brought the apostles in

and made them stand before the Sanhedron,

the high priest questioned them.

We gave you strict orders, did we not,

to stop teaching in that name. Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and want to bring this man's blood upon us. But Peter and the apostles said in reply, We must obey God, rather than

men. The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, though you had him

killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as leader and savior to grant

Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins. We are witnesses of these things, as is the Holy Spirit

whom God has given to those who obey him. The Sanhedron ordered the apostles to stop speaking

in the name of Jesus and dismissed them. So they left the presence of the Sanhedron,

rejoicing that they had been found worthy to suffer dishonor for the presence of the Sanhedron, rejoicing that they had been found worthy

to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

The Word of the Lord.

I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

I will extol you, O Lord, for you drew me clear, and did not let my enemies rejoice

over me

O Lord you brought me up

from the netherworld

you preserved me from among those

going down into the pit

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