Luke 24:13-35
Chapter 24
and they were talking to each other about everything that had happened.
but they didn’t recognize him.
While they discussed these things, Jesus himself approached and started walking with them,
He asked:
“What exactly are you talking about?”
The two stood still, looking sad.
Then the one named Cleophas responded:
“Why, it seems you are the only traveler to Jerusalem who doesn’t know what has happened there these past few days.”
And he asked:
“What is it?”
They replied:
“It is about Jesus of Nazareth. He was a prophet, you know, mighty in word and deed before God and the people.
But the chief priests and our rulers sentenced him to death. They handed him over to be crucified.
We had hoped that he would redeem Israel. It has now been three days since all this happened.
Also, some women from our group caused us trouble. When they went to the tomb at dawn,
they did not find his body; and they told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.
Some of our people went to the tomb and found everything just as the women had described, but they did not find a body in the tomb.”
He said to them:
“How dull you are, how slow of understanding! Is the message of the prophets too difficult for you to understand?
Is it not written that the Christ should suffer all this and then enter his glory?”
Then, beginning with Moses and the prophets, he explained to them everything in the Scriptures that concerned himself.
As they approached the village they were heading for, Jesus appeared to go farther.
But they insisted:
“Stay with us, for night falls quickly. The day is almost done.”
So he went in to stay with them.
When they sat at the table, he took the bread, gave thanks, broke it, and shared it with them.
Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight.
And they said to one another:
“Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road and explaining the Scriptures?”
They immediately set out and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and their companions gathered together.
They were greeted with these words:
“Yes, it is true, the Lord is risen! He has appeared to Simon!”
Then the two recounted what had happened on the road to Emmaus and how Jesus revealed himself when he broke bread with them.