Tuesday in Easter Week carries the octave forward with readings that place the Resurrection within the sweep of redemptive history. The 1928 Book of Common Prayer appoints an Epistle from the mission field and a Gospel from the upper room, together showing that the news of the empty tomb travels outward from Jerusalem into all the world while the Risen Lord himself remains present in the midst of his gathered people.

The appointed Epistle from Acts chapter thirteen records Saint Paul's sermon in the synagogue at Antioch of Pisidia, the first extended sermon of his missionary journeys. Paul rehearses the whole history of Israel — the Exodus, the wilderness, the judges, the kings, the prophets — and declares that God has now fulfilled the promise made to the fathers by raising Jesus from the dead. He appeals to the Psalms: the Holy One whom God raised would not see corruption, as David, though a man after God's own heart, had seen. The Resurrection is not a surprise ending to Israel's story but its appointed goal.

The appointed Gospel from Saint Luke chapter twenty-four recounts the appearance of the Risen Christ to the frightened disciples gathered in Jerusalem: he stood in their midst, said Peace be unto you, showed them his hands and feet, and ate broiled fish before them, that they might know he was no ghost but the same Lord who had died. Then he opened their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures, and commissioned them as witnesses to all nations. Tuesday in Easter Week thus presents the Resurrection not merely as miracle but as interpretive key: everything in the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms finds its fulfilment in the One who now stands, risen, in the midst of his Church.