Luke 24

1verseBut on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

2verseThey found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

3verseThey entered in, and didn’t find the Lord Jesus’ body.

4verseWhile they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.

5verseBecoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. The men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?

6verseHe isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,

7versesaying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?”

8verseThey remembered his words,

9versereturned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

10verseNow they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles.

11verseThese words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.

12verseBut Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.

13verseBehold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.

14verseThey talked with each other about all of these things which had happened.

15verseWhile they talked and questioned together, Jesus himself came near, and went with them.

16verseBut their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

17verseHe said to them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?”

18verseOne of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?”

19verseHe said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

20verseand how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

21verseBut we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

22verseAlso, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb;

23verseand when they didn’t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

24verseSome of us went to the tomb and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him.”

25verseHe said to them, “Foolish people, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

26verseDidn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

27verseBeginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

28verseThey came near to the village where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.

29verseThey urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.

30verseWhen he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave it to them.

31verseTheir eyes were opened and they recognized him; then he vanished out of their sight.

32verseThey said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

33verseThey rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,

34versesaying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”

35verseThey related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

36verseAs they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

37verseBut they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.

38verseHe said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?

39verseSee my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”

40verseWhen he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

41verseWhile they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

42verseThey gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.

43verseHe took them, and ate in front of them.

44verseHe said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.”

45verseThen he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

46verseHe said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

47verseand that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

48verseYou are witnesses of these things.

49verseBehold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”

50verseHe led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them.

51verseWhile he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.

52verseThey worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

53verseand were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.