¹¹ But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.

¹¹ But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.^(A)

¹³ And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.

Jesus Commissions the Disciples

¹⁴ Later he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table, and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.^[a]

²³ and when they did not find his body there they came back and told us that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive. ²⁴ Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.”^{(A) 25} Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared! ²⁶ Was it not necessary that the Messiah^[a] should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?”^{(B) 27} Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things about himself in all the scriptures.^(C)

²⁸ As they came near the village to which they were going, he walked ahead as if he were going on.^{(D) 29} But they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over.” So he went in to stay with them. ³⁰ When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.^{(E) 31} Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished from their sight. ³² They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us^[b] while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?” ³³ That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem, and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together.^{(F) 34} They were saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon!”^{(G) 35} Then they told what had happened on the road and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread.

¹⁹ He answered them, “You faithless generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him to me.”

⁹ Moses told this to the Israelites, but they would not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel slavery.