Shared Word Translation
Luke 24
The Road to Emmaus
Now on that same day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself drew near and went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
And he said to them, “What are these words that you are exchanging with one another as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. Then one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” He said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things took place. Moreover, some women of our group amazed us. They were at the tomb early this morning, and when they did not find his body there, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels who said that he is alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but him they did not see.”
Then he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to trust all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things about himself in all the scriptures.
As they came near the village to which they were going, he walked ahead as if he were going on. But they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is toward evening and the day is now nearly over.” So he went in to stay with them.
When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight. They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?”
That same hour they rose and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven and those with them gathered together, saying, “The Lord has been raised indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread.