Luk 24:1 But on the first day of the week at early dawn they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.

Luk 24:2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

Luk 24:3 but when they went in, they didn't find the body of the Lord Jesus.

Luk 24:4 While they were puzzling over this, two men in dazzling robes suddenly stood beside them.

Luk 24:5 Because the women were terrified and were bowing their faces to the ground, the men asked them, "Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is living?

Luk 24:6 He is not here but has been raised. Remember what he told you while he was still in Galilee,

Luk 24:7 'the Son of Man must be handed over to sinful men, be crucified, and rise on the third day.'"

Luk 24:8 Then they remembered his words.

Luk 24:9 They returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and all the others.

Luk 24:10 The women who told the apostles about it were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and some others.

Luk 24:11 But these words seemed nonsense to them, and they wouldn't believe them.

Luk 24:12 Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. He stooped down and saw only the linen cloths. Then he went home wondering about what had happened.

Luk 24:13 On the same day, two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

Luk 24:14 They were talking with each other about all these things that had taken place.

Luk 24:15 While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself approached and began to walk with them,

Luk 24:16 but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.

Luk 24:17 He asked them, "What are you discussing with each other as you're walking along?" They stood still and looked gloomy.

Luk 24:18 The one whose name was Cleopas answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn't know what happened there these days?"

Luk 24:19 He asked them, "What things?" They answered him, "The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in the things that he did and said before God and all the people,

Luk 24:20 and how our high priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and had him crucified.

Luk 24:21 But we kept hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel. What is more, this is now the third day since these things occurred.

Luk 24:22 Even some of our women have startled us! They were at the tomb early this morning

Luk 24:23 and didn't find his body there, so they came back and told us that they had actually seen a vision of angels who said he was alive.

Luk 24:24 Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they didn't see him."

Luk 24:25 Then Jesus said to them, "O how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe everything the prophets said!

Luk 24:26 The Christ had to suffer these things and then enter his glory, didn't he?"

Luk 24:27 Then, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them all the passages of Scripture about himself.

Luk 24:28 As they came near the village where they were going, he acted as though he were going on farther.

Luk 24:29 But they urged him strongly, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening and the day is almost gone." So he went in to stay with them.

Luk 24:30 While he was at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed it, broke it in pieces, and gave it to them.

Luk 24:31 Then their eyes were opened, and they knew who he was. And he vanished from them.

Luk 24:32 Then they said to each other, "Our hearts kept burning within us as he was talking to us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us, didn't they?"

Luk 24:33 That same hour they got up and went back to Jerusalem and found the eleven and their companions all together.

Luk 24:34 They kept saying, "The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon!"

Luk 24:35 Then they themselves began to tell what had happened on the road and how he was recognized by them when he broke the bread in pieces.

Luk 24:36 While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."

Luk 24:37 They were startled and terrified, thinking they were seeing a ghost.

Luk 24:38 He said to them, "Why are you frightened, and why are doubts arising in your hearts?

Luk 24:39 Look at my hands and my feet, for it is I myself. Touch me and see, for a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones as you see that I have."

Luk 24:40 After he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

Luk 24:41 While they still could not believe it for joy and were full of amazement, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

Luk 24:42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish,

Luk 24:43 and he took it and ate it in their presence.

Luk 24:44 Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you-that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms had to be fulfilled."

Luk 24:45 Then he opened their minds so that they might come to understand the Scriptures.

Luk 24:46 He said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ was to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day,

Luk 24:47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Luk 24:48 You are witnesses of these things.

Luk 24:49 I am sending on you what my Father promised. But stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."

Luk 24:50 Then he led them out as far as Bethany, lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

Luk 24:51 While he was blessing them, he parted from them and was taken up to heaven.

Luk 24:52 They worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.

Luk 24:53 And they were continually in the temple blessing God.