Luke 24:23-35

Living Bible

^22-23 some women from our group of his followers were at his tomb early this morning and came back with an amazing report that his body was missing, and that they had seen some angels there who told them Jesus is alive! ²⁴ Some of our men ran out to see, and sure enough, Jesus’ body was gone, just as the women had said.”

²⁵ Then Jesus said to them, “You are such foolish, foolish people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the Scriptures! ²⁶ Wasn’t it clearly predicted by the prophets that the Messiah would have to suffer all these things before entering his time of glory?”

²⁷ Then Jesus quoted them passage after passage from the writings of the prophets, beginning with the book of Genesis and going right on through the Scriptures, explaining what the passages meant and what they said about himself.

²⁸ By this time they were nearing Emmaus and the end of their journey. Jesus would have gone on, ²⁹ but they begged him to stay the night with them, as it was getting late. So he went home with them. ³⁰ As they sat down to eat, he asked God’s blessing on the food and then took a small loaf of bread and broke it and was passing it over to them, ³¹ when suddenly—it was as though their eyes were opened—they recognized him! And at that moment he disappeared!

³² They began telling each other how their hearts had felt strangely warm as he talked with them and explained the Scriptures during the walk down the road. ^33-34 Within the hour they were on their way back to Jerusalem, where the eleven disciples and the other followers of Jesus greeted them with these words, “The Lord has really risen! He appeared to Peter!”

³⁵ Then the two from Emmaus told their story of how Jesus had appeared to them as they were walking along the road and how they had recognized him as he was breaking the bread.