Please feel free to use these responsive readings I arranged for my church. The KJV is used here, but you may replace with a different translation as desired. I think you may find that the vocal pacing works well using the KJV or NKJV, even if that’s not the version your church typically uses.
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Bold – Leader
Regular – Congregation
Easter Responsive Reading #1
He is Risen
He is Risen Indeed!
Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD:
we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
As a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way;
and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
And with his stripes we are healed.
He is Risen
He is Risen Indeed!
Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And he was buried, and he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
This Jesus, God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death:
because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
This is the LORD’S doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
This is the day which the LORD hath made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it.
He is Risen
He is Risen Indeed!
Easter Responsive Reading #2
He is Risen
He is Risen Indeed!
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
As a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
And with his stripes we are healed.
He is Risen
He is Risen Indeed!
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand,
I shall not be moved.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth:
My flesh also shall rest in hope.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell;
Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
He is Risen
He is Risen Indeed!
This Jesus God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death:
It was not possible that he should be holden of it
And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
What shall we then say to these things?
If God be for us, who can be against us?
He is Risen
He is Risen Indeed!
Arranged by Jonathan Santiago
