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Luke 24
The Road to Emmaus
Now that same day, two of them were walking to a village named Emmaus, about sixty stadia from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things, Jesus himself came near and began walking with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him. He asked them, “What are these words you are exchanging as you walk?” They stopped, looking downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, answered, “Are you the only visitor staying in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” He asked them, “What things?” They replied, “The things about Jesus the Nazarene. He was a man who became a prophet, powerful in deed and word before God and all the people, and our chief priests and rulers handed him over to be condemned to death and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one about to redeem Israel. Besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened. Moreover, some women from our group astonished us. They were at the tomb early this morning, and when they did not find his body, they came saying they had even seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. Some of those with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.” Then Jesus said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow in heart to believe everything the prophets spoke! Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and enter his glory?” Beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted for them the things about himself in all the Scriptures. As they approached the village where they were going, Jesus acted as though he were going farther. But they strongly urged him, “Stay with us, because it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them. When he reclined at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed it, broke it, and began giving it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” They got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them gathered together, who were saying, “The Lord really has risen and has appeared to Simon!” Then the two told what had happened on the road and how Jesus became known to them in the breaking of the bread.