Bible Studies

We hope you find our 'Word in Time' Bible studies support you in recognising God in Scripture, and the world around you.

Each week’s studies are written by volunteers across the Connexion (you can read the author’s biography after each study). They follow the lectionary of the Methodist Prayer Handbook. You may additionally be interested in our Prayer of the Day, also from the Methodist Prayer Handbook.

If you would like to write for A Word in Time, please email wit@methodistchurch.org.uk

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This week's theme: Enduring Love

“They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths, according to the burial custom of the Jews.” (v. 40)
John 19:40
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“Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, ‘they have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” (vv. 1-2)
John 20:1-10
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"Jesus said to her, 'Mary!' She turned and said to him in Hebrew, 'Rabbouni!' (which means Teacher)." (v. 16)
John 20:1-18
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"Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went towards the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb ... Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, went in, and he saw and believed." (v.3-6, 8)
John 20:1-18
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'I have seen the Lord.' (v. 18)
John 20:1-18
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Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, 'I have seen the Lord.' (v. 18)
John 20:1-18
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"For as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead." (v.9)
John 20:1-18
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"The other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed ... Jesus said to her, 'Mary!'... Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, 'I have seen the Lord'." (v.8, 16, 18)
John 20:1-18
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“Jesus said to her, ‘Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”’” (v. 17)
John 20:11-18
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"Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, 'I have seen the Lord'; and she told them that he had said these things to her." (v.18)
John 20:11-18
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John 20:11-18
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“Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’ When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’” (vv. 21-23)
John 20:19-23
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