You can find many of these passages elsewhere. Here are a few:

Luke 24:13-35
Colossians 3:1-4, Matthew 28:1-10
Acts 10:34-43, Isaiah 25:6-9, Mark 16:1-8
Corinthians 5:6-10
John 20:19-31

1 Corinthians 15:19-26

This chapter is covered during the Epiphany, but saves this bit for Easter.

It's the violent part. The part where Jesus is going to destroy every ruler. Most preachers only speak to the part about how he conquers death. That's why all of us regular folks want to belong to Christ. This is a pretty complete theology in one chapter, but still leaves the exact mechanism of getting to heaven a bit obscured. Is it just a given, now that the crucifixion is done? What do we need to do to be in Christ? When will all this happen? Questions we have to this day.

1 Corinthians 1:17-31

I'm going to break my rule of only including passages from Sundays. This is from Tuesday of Holy Week. Not a night most people will go into church. FYI, be nice to pastors on Holy Week, they are working hard. Martin Hughes calls this the worst passage in the Bible. It's not about killing or raping, Christians agree those are bad. What makes this one the worst is that good people love it. It starts off saying any intelligent thing you might have to say only matters if it fits with the theology of Jesus on the Cross. We've been seeing this "lens of the cross" theme lately, so I wanted to include it.

It doesn't just say their worldview is better, it says all the other views will be destroyed. God has made foolish the wisdom of the world. If this is what "lens of the cross" means, we shouldn't have anything to do with it. The passage simply "proclaims Christ crucified". As Martin puts it, "the story is its own argument". Preachers will surround the story with much more allegory, interpretation and apparent wisdom, but they will come back to the image of Jesus on the cross as if that is the key to it all. If you can't figure it out, well, God is smarter than you. This is the conclusion of most books or debates or explanations of Christianity that I know; the Bible has the answer, if you don't get it, read it again and pray some more. And it helps if you just believe it first.

Luke 24:1-12

Most of the passages for today are covered in other years, might as well read the entire Luke chapter. I'll skip the comparisons of who was where when, those can be found easily all over. One clear statement we get here is verse 7, that Jesus definitely said he had to be handed over to sinners and be crucified. This explains a lot of the earlier secretiveness, the statements about "tell no one". To fulfill the prophecy, the sinners (the corrupt leaders who were interpreting scripture incorrectly) had to think they were killing a trouble maker, not the messiah. Still, the remaining disciples (sans Judas), don't get it. In part, it seems this is a problem with believing the women. I'm writing this just as Justice Kavanaugh is getting seated on the Supreme Court. It seems things have not changed much in 2,000 years. It's a subversive bit of writing. The women are shown as leaders, getting the first news of the risen Christ, but Peter has to confirm it, then they are all amazed.

Luke 24:13-49 (Easter evening)

I have some snarky remarks on the first half of this passage back in Year A in week 3 after Easter. I find these passages a bit annoying. The ones that have a lot about people being amazed to be in the presence of the living Jesus, after he died, but we get nothing about what that is like for him or any new insight now that we know that the crucifixion was part of the plan. It's like a science fiction movie that spends a lot of time on impressive computer graphics, but not much on dialog. Instead we get vague references to the Old Testament, although it claims "Thus it is written". It could be Psalm 16, "nor will you let your faithful one decay", or various Isaiah passages, chief among them 53:3-5 "with his stripes we are healed". If nothing else this gives us some sense that these stories were not pulled out of nothing, or simply copied from other cultures in the area, but came from Jewish lore. For the most specific reference I know of, try Hosea 6:1-3. Some just go with the extremely vague reference to the entire Old Testament, but I would call that a cop out.