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'''24:1''' On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.<br>
'''24:2''' They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,<br>
'''24:3''' but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.<br>
'''24:4''' While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them.<br>
'''24:5''' In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?<br>
'''24:6''' He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: <br>
'''24:7''' ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”<br>
'''24:8''' Then they remembered his words.<br>
'''24:9''' When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others.<br>
'''24:10''' It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles.<br>
'''24:11''' But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. <br>
'''24:12''' Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.<br>
'''24:13''' Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. <br>
'''24:14''' They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. <br>
'''24:15''' As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them;<br>
'''24:16''' but they were kept from recognizing him.<br>
'''24:17''' He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” They stood still, their faces downcast.<br>
'''24:18''' One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”<br>
'''24:19''' “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. <br>
'''24:20''' The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him;<br>
'''24:21''' 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. <br>
'''24:22''' In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning<br>
'''24:23'''  but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. <br>
'''24:24''' Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”<br>
'''24:25''' He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! <br>
'''24:26''' Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” <br>
'''24:27''' And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.<br>
'''24:28''' As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther.<br>
'''24:29''' 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.<br>
'''24:30''' When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.<br>
'''24:31''' Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.<br>
'''24:32''' 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?”<br>
'''24:33''' They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together <br>
'''24:34''' and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.”<br>
'''24:35''' Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.<br>
'''24:36'''  While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”<br>
'''24:37''' They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost.<br>
'''24:38''' He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? <br>
'''24:39''' Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”<br>
'''24:40''' When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet.<br>
'''24:41''' And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”<br>
'''24:42''' They gave him a piece of broiled fish,<br>
'''24:43''' and he took it and ate it in their presence.<br>
'''24:44''' He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”<br>
'''24:45''' Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. <br>
'''24:46''' He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,<br>
'''24:47''' and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.<br>
'''24:48''' You are witnesses of these things.
'''24:49''' I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
'''24:50'''  When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them.
'''24:51''' While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.
'''24:52''' Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.
'''24:53''' And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God.