Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁴ and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, `Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings,

³⁶ assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him -- this Jesus whom ye did crucify.'

³⁷ And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, `What shall we do, men, brethren?'

³⁸ and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

³⁹ for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'

⁴⁰ Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, `Be saved from this perverse generation;'

⁴¹ then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,

116 I have loved, because Jehovah heareth My voice, my supplication,

² Because He hath inclined His ear to me, And during my days I call.

³ Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.

⁴ And in the name of Jehovah I call: I pray Thee, O Jehovah, deliver my soul,

¹² What do I return to Jehovah? All His benefits [are] upon me.

¹³ The cup of salvation I lift up, And in the name of Jehovah I call.

¹⁴ My vows to Jehovah let me complete, I pray you, before all His people.

¹⁵ Precious in the eyes of Jehovah [is] the death for His saints.

¹⁶ Cause [it] to come, O Jehovah, for I [am] Thy servant. I [am] Thy servant, son of Thy handmaid, Thou hast opened my bonds.

¹⁷ To Thee I sacrifice a sacrifice of thanks, And in the name of Jehovah I call.

¹⁸ My vows to Jehovah let me complete, I pray you, before all His people,

¹⁹ In the courts of the house of Jehovah, In thy midst, O Jerusalem, praise ye Jah!

¹⁷ and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,

¹⁸ having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

¹⁹ but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --

²⁰ foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

²¹ who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

²² Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

²³ being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;

¹³ And, lo, two of them were going on during that day to a village, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, the name of which [is] Emmaus,

¹⁴ and they were conversing with one another about all these things that have happened.

¹⁵ And it came to pass in their conversing and reasoning together, that Jesus himself, having come nigh, was going on with them,

¹⁶ and their eyes were holden so as not to know him,

¹⁷ and he said unto them, `What [are] these words that ye exchange with one another, walking, and ye are sad?'

¹⁸ And the one, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said unto him, `Art thou alone such a stranger in Jerusalem, that thou hast not known the things that came to pass in it in these days?'

¹⁹ And he said to them, `What things?' And they said to him, `The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man -- a prophet -- powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people,

²⁰ how also the chief priests and our rulers did deliver him up to a judgment of death, and crucified him;

²¹ and we were hoping that he it is who is about to redeem Israel, and also with all these things, this third day is passing to-day, since these things happened.

²² `And certain women of ours also astonished us, coming early to the tomb,

²³ and not having found his body, they came, saying also to have seen an apparition of messengers, who say he is alive,

²⁴ and certain of those with us went away unto the tomb, and found as even the women said, and him they saw not.'

²⁵ And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!

²⁶ Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?'

²⁷ and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.

²⁸ And they came nigh to the village whither they were going, and he made an appearance of going on further,

²⁹ and they constrained him, saying, `Remain with us, for it is toward evening,' and the day did decline, and he went in to remain with them.

³⁰ And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken, he was giving to them,

³¹ and their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became unseen by them.

³² And they said one to another, `Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?'

³³ And they, having risen up the same hour, turned back to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven, and those with them,

³⁴ saying -- `The Lord was raised indeed, and was seen by Simon;'

³⁵ and they were telling the things in the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread,