Reflect on Holy Week by Reading These Easter Bible Verses

While gathering the family for an annual egg hunt then sitting down to a delightful Easter brunch certainly makes Easter one of our most anticipated spring holidays, it's important to remember that perhaps the most special Easter traditions revolve around the true meaning of Easter itself.

For those who need a refresher, Easter is one of the principal Holy Days of Christianity. It's the final day of Holy Week which begins with Palm Sunday to signify when Jesus enters the city of Jerusalem, leads to Good Friday to honor Christ's death by crucifixion, then ends with Easter to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus. For many Christians, Easter also marks the joyous conclusion to Lent, a season of devoted prayer, fasting, and penitence. The holiday is a time to give thanks to Christ after He gave the ultimate sacrifice for our sins to grant eternal life to those who believe in Him.

As far as Easter activities go, attending a church service on Easter Sunday is of course, a wonderful way to commemorate His love for us. But another way to reflect on Jesus' glorious promise is to spend some time with the Word of God and read up on Easter Bible verses. There are so many scriptures and Easter quotes that highlight the importance of the season and will help guide you through your worship. Take time to go through them and rejoice as a family or use a few in your Easter prayers—they'd even make great Easter wishes to send to loved ones as texts or in Easter cards. However you spend the day, it's sure to be filled with joy as you commemorate the Risen Savior!

Bible Verses About Resurrection

• Matthew 28:6: "He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay."

• Luke 24:6-7: "Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 'The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.'"

• John 11:25-26: "Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?'"

• Romans 10:9: "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."

• 1 Peter 1:3-4: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you."

• John 6:40: "For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

• Romans 6:4-5: "We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his."

• Romans 6:8-11: "Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus."

• Acts 3:15: "You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead."

• Philippians 3:10: "I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death."

• Job 19:25: "For I know that my redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth."

• Colossians 2:12: "Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead."

Easter Story Bible Verses

• Mark 8:31: "Then Jesus began to teach his disciples: 'The Human One must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and the legal experts, and be killed, and then, after three days, rise from the dead.'"

• John 20:17-18: "Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: 'I have seen the Lord!' And she told them that he had said these things to her."

• Matthew 20:18-19: "We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!"

• Revelation 1:17-18: "When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. But he put his right hand on me and said, "Don’t be afraid. I’m the first and the last, and the living one. I was dead, but look! Now I’m alive forever and always. I have the keys of Death and the Grave."

• John 13:12-16: "After he washed the disciples' feet, he put on his robes and returned to his place at the table. He said to them, 'Do you know what I’ve done for you? You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and you speak correctly, because I am. If I, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you too must wash each other’s feet. I have given you an example: Just as I have done, you also must do. I assure you, servants aren’t greater than their master, nor are those who are sent greater than the one who sent them.'"

• John 19:5-6: "When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, 'Here is the man!' As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, 'Crucify! Crucify!' But Pilate answered, 'You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.'"

• Mark 15:29-32: "People walking by insulted him, shaking their heads and saying, 'Ha! So you were going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, were you? Save yourself and come down from that cross!' In the same way, the chief priests were making fun of him among themselves, together with the legal experts. 'He saved others,' they said, 'but he can’t save himself. Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross. Then we’ll see and believe.' Even those who had been crucified with Jesus insulted him."

• Luke 23:46-47: "Jesus called out with a loud voice, 'Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.' When he had said this, he breathed his last. The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, 'Surely this was a righteous man.'"

• John 19:18: "There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between."

• Mark 15:46-47: "So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid."

• Matthew 27:65-66: "Pilate replied, ‘You have soldiers for guard duty. Go and make it as secure as you know how.’ Then they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard."

• Mark 16:5-7: "As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. 'Don't be alarmed,' he said. 'You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter, "He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.'"

• Luke 24:2-3: "They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus."

Easter Bible Verses for Children

• John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

• Mark 16:6: "'Don’t be alarmed,' he said. 'You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen!"
  

• 1 Corinthians 6:14: "And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power."

• John 14:6: "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'"

• Ephesians 1:20: "God’s power was at work in Christ when God raised him from the dead and sat him at God’s right side in the heavens."

• Luke 24:34: "The Lord is risen indeed!"

• 1 Corinthians 15:4: "He was buried, [and] he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures."

• Acts 4:33: "With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all."
  

• Colossians 1:13-14: "God has rescued us from the power of darkness and has brought us into the kingdom of the Son whom he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."

• 1 Peter 1:3: "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead."

• 1 Thessalonians 4:14: "For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him."

• Mark 16:1-4: "When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb and they asked each other, 'Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?' But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away."

• 2 Corinthians 5:17: "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!"

• Romans 10:9: "Because if you confess with your mouth 'Jesus is Lord' and in your heart you have faith that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."

Bible Verses About the Cross

• Philippians 2:8: "And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!"

• 1 Peter 2:24: "'He himself bore our sins' in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; 'by his wounds you have been healed.'"

• Mark 15: 32: "'Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.' Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him."

• 1 Corinthians 1:18: "For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God."

• Luke 14:27: "Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple."

• Matthew 16:24: "Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me."

• Acts 5:30: "The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had put to death by hanging Him on a cross."

• Hebrews 12:2: "Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."

• John 19:17-19: "Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle. Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews."

• Galatians 6:14: "May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world."

• Colossians 2:14: "Having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross."

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