Luke
24: 13 - 35 (NIV)
Now that same day two of them were going to a village called
Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking
with each other about everything that had happened. As they
talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus
himself came up and walked along with them; but they were
kept from recognizing him.
He
asked them, “What are you discussing
together as you walk along?”
They
stood still, their faces downcast. One of them, named Cleopas,
asked him, “Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and
do not know the things that have happened there in these
days?
“What
things?”
he asked.
“About
Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a
prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the
people. The chief priests and our rulers handed him over
to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; but we
had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel.
And what is more, it is the third day since all this took
place. In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went
to the tomb early this morning but didn’t find his
body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision
of angels, who said he was alive. Then some of our companions
went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said,
but him they did not see.”
He
said to them, “How foolish you
are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets
have spoken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these things
and then enter his glory?” And beginning with
Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was
said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
As
they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus
acted as if he were going farther. But they urged him strongly,
“Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is
almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.
When
he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks,
broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were
opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from
their sight. They asked each other,
“Were not our hearts burning within us while
he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures
to us?”
They got up and returned
at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled
together and saying, "It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon."
Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them
when he broke the bread.
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