Visual Resources for the Lectionaries

This post offers visual resources for the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary for April 12, 2026. Use this chart for quick links to the texts and the resource pages on cartoonistbible.com.

Easter 2

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Revised Common Lectionary Resources

Gospel Reading – John 20:19-31

This page is from the Come and See version of John

This is the second Sunday of the Easter season and the first week of our journey to Pentecost. The first and second readings and Psalms are all about Peter’s witness to the resurrection of Jesus and its power for salvation. We hear him quote Joel 2 and Psalm 16 to connect this event with the Hebrew theological expectation of the Messiah and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The opening statment of his letter establishes a foundation of hope to bolster his people who are experiencing extreme persecution.

The Gospel reading shows us John’s version of how the Spirit came upon the disciples. Jesus breathed the Spirit upon them. The word breathed is the Greek word emphusao and is used only here in the NT and only in Genesis 2:7 in the Septuagint, translating the Hebrew Word nephesh, when God breathed into Adam’s nostrils and gave him life.

Thomas missed out on this moment. He doubted it when the disciples described it during the week. Jesus breathes hope into Thomas in a different way the next Sunday. Jesus says to Thomas, “put your finger here and see my hands.” Thomas breathed in hope that day.

Hope is the breath of resurrection. It seems that we have been holding our breath a lot lately. Things have seemed more precarious than usual in the last several months. My prayer for you this Easter season is that you might breathe again. God is with you, through it all. God has given us “a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”

Alleluia!

Narrative Lectionary Resources

John 20:19-31

This is the same reading for the RCL. Scroll up for resources.

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