LO - Luke - 24

24:1  But the first day of the week, they went by daybreak, with some others, to the tomb, carrying the spices which they had provided,

24:2  and found the stone rolled away from the tomb;

24:3  and having entered, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

24:4  While they were in perplexity on this account, behold, two men stood by them, in robes of a dazzling brightness.

24:5  The women being affrighted, and fixing their eyes on the ground, these said to them, Why do you seek the living among the dead?

24:6  He is not here, but is risen; remember how he spoke to you, before he left Galilee,

24:7  saying, The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinners, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.

24:8  Then they remembered his words.

24:9  On their return from the tomb, they reported the whole matter to the eleven, and to all the other disciples.

24:10  It was Mary the Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women with them, who told these things to the Apostles:

24:11  but their account appeared to them as idle tales; they gave them no credit.

24:12  Peter, however, arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, saw nothing there but the linen lying. And he went away, musing with astonishment on what had happened.

24:13  The same day, as two of the disciples were traveling to a village named Emmaus, sixty furlongs from Jerusalem,

24:14  they conversed together about all these events.

24:15  While they were conversing and reasoning, Jesus himself joined them, and went along with them.

24:16  But their eyes were so affected that they did not know him.

24:17  And he said to them, What subjects are these about which you confer together? and why are you dejected?

24:18  And one of them, named Cleopas, answered, Are you only a stranger in Jerusalem, and do you not know the things which have happened there so lately?

24:19  What things? said he. They answered, Concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet, powerful in word and deed, before God and all the people;

24:20  how our chief priests and magistrates have delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.

24:21  As for us, we trusted that it had been he who should have redeemed Israel. Besides all this, to-day, being the third day since these things happened,

24:22  some women of our company have astonished us; for having gone early to the tomb,

24:23  and not found his body, they came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said that he is alive.

24:24  And some of our men went to the tomb, and found matters exactly as the women had related; but him they saw not.

24:25  Then he said to them, O thoughtless men, and backward to believe things which have been all predicted by the prophets!

24:26  Ought not the Messiah thus to suffer, and so to enter into his glory?

24:27  Then beginning with Moses, and proceeding through all the prophets, he explained to them all the passages relating to himself.

24:28  When they came near the village, whither they were traveling, he seemed as intending to go farther;

24:29  but they constrained him, saying, Abide with us, for it grows late, and the day is far spent. And he went to abide with them.

24:30  While they were at table together, he took the loaf, and blessed and broke it, and distributed to them.

24:31  Then their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he disappeared.

24:32  And they said one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked with us on the road, and expounded to us the scriptures?

24:33  Immediately they arose and returned to Jerusalem, where they found the eleven, and the rest of their company assembled,

24:34  who said, The Master is actually risen, and has appeared to Simon.

24:35  These also recounted what had happened on the road, and how he was made known to them in breaking the loaf.

24:36  While they discoursed in this manner, he stood in the midst of them, and said, Peace be to you.

24:37  But they were amazed and affrighted, imagining that they saw a spirit.

24:38  And he said to them, Why are you so alarmed? And wherefore do suspicious arise in your hearts?

24:39  Behold my hands and my feet; it is I myself; handle me and be convinced; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see me have.

24:40  Saying this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

24:41  While yet they believed not, for joy and amazement, he said to them, Have you here anything to eat?

24:42  And they gave him a piece of broiled fish, and of a honeycomb,

24:43  which he took and eat in their presence.

24:44  And he said to them, This is what I told you while I remained with you, that all the things which are written of me in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, must be accomplished.

24:45  Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the scriptures;

24:46  and said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved the Messiah to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day;

24:47  and that reformation and the remission of sins should be proclaimed, in his name, among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

24:48  Now, you are witnesses of these things;

24:49  and behold I send you that which my Father has promised; but do you continue in this city, until you be invested with power from above.

24:50  He then led them out as far as Bethany, and lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

24:51  And while he was blessing them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.

24:52  And having worshiped him, they returned to Jerusalem with great joy;

24:53  and were constantly in the temple, praising and blessing God.