Luke 24:1-34

¹On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.

²They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

³but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

⁴While they were puzzling over this, suddenly two men in radiant apparel stood beside them.

⁵As the women bowed their faces to the ground in terror, the two men asked them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

⁶He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee:

⁷‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.’”

⁸Then they remembered His words.

⁹And when they returned from the tomb, they reported all these things to the Eleven and to all the others.

¹⁰It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles.

¹¹But their words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.

¹²Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. And after bending down and seeing only the linen cloths, he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.

¹³That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

¹⁴They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.

¹⁵And as they talked and deliberated, Jesus Himself came up and walked along with them.

¹⁶But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.

¹⁷He asked them, “What are you discussing so intently as you walk along?” They stood still, with sadness on their faces.

¹⁸One of them, named Cleopas, asked Him, “Are You the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in recent days?”

¹⁹“What things?” He asked. “The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people.

²⁰Our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and they crucified Him.

²¹But we were hoping He was the One who would redeem Israel. And besides all this, it is the third day since these things took place.

²²Furthermore, some of our women astounded us. They were at the tomb early this morning,

²³but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.

²⁴Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had described. But Him they did not see.”

²⁵Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

²⁶Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”

²⁷And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.

²⁸As they approached the village where they were headed, He seemed to be going farther.

²⁹But they pleaded with Him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So He went in to stay with them.

³⁰While He was reclining at the table with them, He took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to them.

³¹Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus — and He disappeared from their sight.

³²They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

³³And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, gathered together

³⁴and saying, “The Lord has indeed risen and has appeared to Simon!”

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