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Luke 24:13-35 NIV
13 Now that same day two of
them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from
Jerusalem.
14 They were talking with each
other about everything that had happened.
15 As they talked and discussed
these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along
with them;
16 but they were kept from
recognizing him.
17 He asked them, "What are you discussing together as you
walk along?"
They stood still, their faces downcast.
18 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?"
19 "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.
20 The chief priests and our
rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified
him;
21 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.
22 In addition, some of our
women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning
23 but didn't find his body.
They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who
said he was alive.
24 Then some of our companions
went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him
they did not see."
25 He said to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow of
heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
26 Did not the Christ have to
suffer these things and then enter his glory?"
27 And beginning with Moses and
all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the
Scriptures concerning himself.
28 As they approached the village to which they were going,
Jesus acted as if he were going farther.
29 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.
30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave
thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.
31 Then their eyes were opened
and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.
32 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?"
33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they
found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together
34 and saying, "It is true! The
Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon."
35 Then the two told what had
happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he
broke the bread. |
