THE ROAD TO EMMAUS
Now that very day two of them were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem
called Emmaus, and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred.
And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself
drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing
him. He asked them, "What are you discussing as you walk along?" They stopped,
looking downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply, "Are you the
only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know of the things that have taken place
there in these days?"
And he replied to them, "What sort of things?" They said to him, "The things that
happened to Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word
before God and all the people, how our chief priests and rulers both handed him
over to a sentence of death and crucified him. But we were hoping that he would
be the one to redeem Israel; and besides all this, it is now the third day since this
took place. Some women from our group, however, have astounded us: they were
at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; they came back and
reported that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who announced that he was
alive. Then some of those with us went to the tomb and found things just as the
women had described, but him they did not see."
And he said to them, "Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all
that the prophets spoke! Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer 8
these things and enter into his glory?" Then beginning with Moses and all the
prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the scriptures.
As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression
that he was going on farther. But they urged him, "Stay with us, for it is nearly
evening and the day is almost over." So he went in to stay with them.
And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the
blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they
recognized him, but he vanished from their sight.
Then they said to each other, "Were not our hearts burning (within us) while he
spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?" So they set out at once
and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and
those with them who were saying, "The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared
to Simon!" Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and
how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.
Luke 24: 13—35
called Emmaus, and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred.
And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself
drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing
him. He asked them, "What are you discussing as you walk along?" They stopped,
looking downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply, "Are you the
only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know of the things that have taken place
there in these days?"
And he replied to them, "What sort of things?" They said to him, "The things that
happened to Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word
before God and all the people, how our chief priests and rulers both handed him
over to a sentence of death and crucified him. But we were hoping that he would
be the one to redeem Israel; and besides all this, it is now the third day since this
took place. Some women from our group, however, have astounded us: they were
at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; they came back and
reported that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who announced that he was
alive. Then some of those with us went to the tomb and found things just as the
women had described, but him they did not see."
And he said to them, "Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all
that the prophets spoke! Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer 8
these things and enter into his glory?" Then beginning with Moses and all the
prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the scriptures.
As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression
that he was going on farther. But they urged him, "Stay with us, for it is nearly
evening and the day is almost over." So he went in to stay with them.
And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the
blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they
recognized him, but he vanished from their sight.
Then they said to each other, "Were not our hearts burning (within us) while he
spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?" So they set out at once
and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and
those with them who were saying, "The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared
to Simon!" Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and
how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.
Luke 24: 13—35