24:1 But on the first day of the week at early dawn they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. |
24:2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, |
24:3 but when they went in, they didn't find the body of the Lord Jesus. |
24:4 While they were puzzling over this, two men in dazzling robes suddenly stood beside them. |
24:5 Because the women were terrified and were bowing their faces to the ground, the men asked them, "Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is living? |
24:6 He is not here but has been raised. Remember what he told you while he was still in Galilee, |
24:7 'the Son of Man must be handed over to sinful men, be crucified, and rise on the third day.'" |
24:8 Then they remembered his words. |
24:9 They returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and all the others. |
24:10 The women who told the apostles about it were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and some others. |
24:11 But these words seemed nonsense to them, and they wouldn't believe them. |
24:12 Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. He stooped down and saw only the linen cloths. Then he went home wondering about what had happened. |
24:13 On the same day, two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. |
24:14 They were talking with each other about all these things that had taken place. |
24:15 While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself approached and began to walk with them, |
24:16 but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. |
24:17 He asked them, "What are you discussing with each other as you're walking along?" They stood still and looked gloomy. |
24:18 The one whose name was Cleopas answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn't know what happened there these days?" |
24:19 He asked them, "What things?" They answered him, "The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in the things that he did and said before God and all the people, |
24:20 and how our high priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and had him crucified. |
24:21 But we kept hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel. What is more, this is now the third day since these things occurred. |
24:22 Even some of our women have startled us! They were at the tomb early this morning |
24:23 and didn't find his body there, so they came back and told us that they had actually seen a vision of angels who said he was alive. |
24:24 Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they didn't see him." |
24:25 Then Jesus said to them, "O how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe everything the prophets said! |
24:26 The Christ had to suffer these things and then enter his glory, didn't he?" |
24:27 Then, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them all the passages of Scripture about himself. |
24:28 As they came near the village where they were going, he acted as though he were going on farther. |
24:29 But they urged him strongly, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening and the day is almost gone." So he went in to stay with them. |
24:30 While he was at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed it, broke it in pieces, and gave it to them. |
24:31 Then their eyes were opened, and they knew who he was. And he vanished from them. |
24:32 Then they said to each other, "Our hearts kept burning within us as he was talking to us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us, didn't they?" |
24:33 That same hour they got up and went back to Jerusalem and found the eleven and their companions all together. |
24:34 They kept saying, "The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon!" |
24:35 Then they themselves began to tell what had happened on the road and how he was recognized by them when he broke the bread in pieces. |
24:36 While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." |
24:37 They were startled and terrified, thinking they were seeing a ghost. |
24:38 He said to them, "Why are you frightened, and why are doubts arising in your hearts? |
24:39 Look at my hands and my feet, for it is I myself. Touch me and see, for a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones as you see that I have." |
24:40 After he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. |
24:41 While they still could not believe it for joy and were full of amazement, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" |
24:42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, |
24:43 and he took it and ate it in their presence. |
24:44 Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you-that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms had to be fulfilled." |
24:45 Then he opened their minds so that they might come to understand the Scriptures. |
24:46 He said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ was to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, |
24:47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. |
24:48 You are witnesses of these things. |
24:49 I am sending on you what my Father promised. But stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high." |
24:50 Then he led them out as far as Bethany, lifted up his hands, and blessed them. |
24:51 While he was blessing them, he parted from them and was taken up to heaven. |
24:52 They worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. |
24:53 And they were continually in the temple blessing God. |