Easter Day Year A

Easter Day- Year A

Jeremiah 31.1–6
Colossians 3.1–4
John 20.1–18

Again you shall plant vineyards; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy the fruit. Jeremiah echoes Deuteronomy’s promise of covenant
renewal, and points forward to John’s Easter garden. Mary was on the right track, mistaking Jesus for the gardener. In typical Johannine
irony, he was indeed the gardener (though not the way Mary thought), the true Adam, planting again the vineyard of Israel, bringing God’s people home from the exile of death and sowing them like seed in their new land..

Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year A by N T Wright

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