1 But on the morrow of the sabbath, very early indeed in the morning, they came to the tomb, bringing the aromatic spices which they had prepared.2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.3 And when they had entered they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.4 And it came to pass as they were in perplexity about it, that behold, two men suddenly stood by them in shining raiment.5 And as they were filled with fear and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them, Why seek ye the living one among the dead?6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spoke to you, being yet in Galilee,7 saying, The Son of man must be delivered up into the hands of sinners, and be crucified, and rise the third day.8 And they remembered his words;9 and, returning from the sepulchre, related all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.10 Now it was Mary of Magdala, and Johanna, and Mary the {mother} of James, and the others with them, who told these things to the apostles.11 And their words appeared in their eyes as an idle tale, and they disbelieved them.12 But Peter, rising up, ran to the sepulchre, and stooping down he sees the linen clothes lying there alone, and went away home, wondering at what had happened.13 And behold, two of them were going on the same day to a village distant sixty stadia from Jerusalem, called Emmaus;14 and they conversed with one another about all these things which had taken place.15 And it came to pass as they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus himself drawing nigh, went with them;16 but their eyes were holden so as not to know him.17 And he said to them, What discourses are these which pass between you as ye walk, and are downcast?18 And one {of them}, named Cleopas, answering said to him, Thou sojournest alone in Jerusalem, and dost not know what has taken place in it in these days?19 And he said to them, What things? And they said to him, The things concerning Jesus the Nazaraean, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to {the} judgment of death and crucified him.21 But *we* had hoped that *he* was {the one} who is about to redeem Israel. But then, besides all these things, it is now, to-day, the third day since these things took place.22 And withal, certain women from amongst us astonished us, having been very early at the sepulchre,23 and, not having found his body, came, saying that they also had seen a vision of angels, who say that he is living.24 And some of those with us went to the sepulchre, and found it so, as the women also had said, but him they saw not.25 And *he* said to them, O senseless and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!26 Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory?27 And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.28 And they drew near to the village where they were going, and *he* made as though he would go farther.29 And they constrained him, saying, Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is declining. And he entered in to stay with them.30 And it came to pass as he was at table with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken it, gave it to them.31 And their eyes were opened, and they recognised him. And he disappeared from them.32 And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in us as he spoke to us on the way, {and} as he opened the scriptures to us?33 And rising up the same hour, they returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven, and those with them, gathered together,34 saying, The Lord is indeed risen and has appeared to Simon.35 And they related what {had happened} on the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of bread.36 And as they were saying these things, he himself stood in their midst, and says to them, Peace {be} unto you.37 But they, being confounded and being frightened, supposed they beheld a spirit.38 And he said to them, Why are ye troubled? and why are thoughts rising in your hearts?39 behold my hands and my feet, that it is *I* myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as ye see me having.40 And having said this he shewed them his hands and his feet.41 But while they yet did not believe for joy, and were wondering, he said to them, Have ye anything here to eat?42 And they gave him part of a broiled fish and of a honeycomb;43 and he took it and ate before them.44 And he said to them, These {are} the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all that is written concerning me in the law of Moses and prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.45 Then he opened their understanding to understand the scriptures,46 and said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved the Christ to suffer, and to rise from among the dead the third day;47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations beginning at Jerusalem.48 And *ye* are witnesses of these things.49 And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but do ye remain in the city till ye be clothed with power from on high.50 And he led them out as far as Bethany, and having lifted up his hands, he blessed them.51 And it came to pass as he was blessing them, he was separated from them and was carried up into heaven.52 And *they*, having done him homage, returned to Jerusalem with great joy,53 and were continually in the temple praising and blessing God.
1 En baie vroeg in die môre , op die eerste dag van die week, het hulle en ander saam met hulle by die graf gekom en die speserye gebring wat deur hulle toeberei was.2 En hulle het die steen van die graf afgerol gevind.3 En toe hulle ingaan, het hulle nie die liggaam van die Here Jesus gekry nie.4 En terwyl hulle hieroor in verleentheid was, staan daar twee manne by hulle in blink klere.5 En toe hulle baie bevrees word en met hulle aangesigte na die aarde buig, sê die manne vir hulle: Waarom soek julle die Lewende by die dooies?6 Hy is nie hier nie, maar Hy het opgestaan. Onthou hoe Hy vir julle gesê het toe Hy nog in Galil,a was:7 Die Seun van die mens moet oorgelewer word in die hande van sondige mense en gekruisig word en op die derde dag opstaan.8 En hulle het sy woorde onthou.9 Hulle gaan toe terug van die graf en vertel dit alles aan die elf en aan al die ander.10 En dit was Maria Magdal,na en Johanna en Maria, die moeder van Jakobus, en die ander vroue saam met hulle wat dit aan die apostels vertel het.11 En hul woorde het vir hulle na onsinnige praatjies gelyk, en hulle het hul nie geglo nie.12 Maar Petrus het opgestaan en na die graf gehardloop; en toe hy neerbuk, sien hy die doeke alleen lê. En hy het weggegaan huis toe, vol verwondering oor wat gebeur het.13 En twee van hulle was dieselfde dag op pad na 'n dorp wat agt myl van Jerusalem af was, met die naam van ÂmmaÂs.14 En hulle was in gesprek met mekaar oor al hierdie dinge wat voorgeval het.15 En terwyl hulle praat en mekaar ondervra, kom Jesus self nader en loop met hulle saam.16 Maar hulle oë is weerhou, sodat hulle Hom nie kon herken nie.17 En Hy sê vir hulle: Watter woorde is dit wat julle met mekaar loop en wissel, en waarom is julle bedroef?18 En die een wie se naam Kl,opas was, antwoord en sê vir Hom: Is U alleen 'n vreemdeling in Jerusalem en weet U nie van die dinge wat in hierdie dae daarin gebeur het nie?19 En Hy sê vir hulle: Watter dinge? En hulle antwoord Hom: Die dinge aangaande Jesus, die Nasar,ner, wat 'n profeet was, kragtig in werk en woord voor God en die hele volk;20 en hoe ons owerpriesters en owerstes Hom oorgelewer het tot die doodstraf en Hom gekruisig het.21 En ons het gehoop dat dit Hy was wat Israel sou verlos; maar nou is dit vandag, met dit alles, die derde dag vandat dit plaasgevind het.22 Maar sommige vroue uit ons het ons ook ontstel nadat hulle vroeg by die graf was;23 en toe hulle sy liggaam nie kry nie, het hulle gekom en gesê dat hulle ook 'n gesig gesien het van engele wat sê dat Hy lewe.24 En sommige van die wat saam met ons was, het na die graf gegaan en dit net so gevind soos die vroue ook gesê het; maar Hom het hulle nie gesien nie.25 En Hy sê vir hulle: o Onverstandiges, met harte wat traag is om te glo alles wat die profete gespreek het!26 Moes die Christus nie hierdie dinge ly en in sy heerlikheid ingaan nie?27 En Hy het begin van Moses en al die profete af en vir hulle uitgelê in al die Skrifte die dinge wat op Hom betrekking het.28 Daarop kom hulle naby die dorp waarheen hulle op reis was, en Hy het gemaak of Hy verder wou gaan;29 maar hulle het by Hom aangedring en gesê: Bly by ons, want dit is amper aand en die dag het gedaal; en Hy het ingegaan om by hulle te bly.30 En toe Hy met hulle aan tafel was, neem Hy die brood en dank; en Hy breek dit en gee dit aan hulle.31 Toe is hulle oë geopen en hulle het Hom herken, en Hy het uit hulle gesig verdwyn.32 En hulle sê vir mekaar: Was ons hart nie brandende in ons toe Hy met ons op die pad gepraat en vir ons die Skrifte uitgelê het nie?33 Toe staan hulle in dieselfde uur op en gaan na Jerusalem terug en vind die elf en die wat saam met hulle bymekaar was,34 wat sê: Die Here het waarlik opgestaan en het aan Simon verskyn.35 Toe vertel hulle wat op die pad gebeur het en hoe Hy aan hulle bekend geword het by die breking van die brood.36 En terwyl hulle hieroor praat, staan Jesus self in hul midde en sê vir hulle: Vrede vir julle!37 Toe het hulle verskrik en baie bang geword en gemeen dat hulle 'n gees sien.38 En Hy sê vir hulle: Waarom is julle ontsteld en waarom kom daar twyfel in julle hart op?39 Kyk na my hande en my voete, want dit is Ek self. Voel aan My en kyk; want 'n gees het nie vlees en bene soos julle sien dat Ek het nie.40 En terwyl Hy dit sê, wys Hy hulle sy hande en sy voete.41 En toe hulle van blydskap nog nie kon glo nie en hulle verwonder, sê Hy vir hulle: Het julle hier iets om te eet?42 Daarop gee hulle Hom 'n stuk gebraaide vis en 'n stuk heuningkoek.43 En Hy het dit geneem en voor hulle oë geëet.44 En Hy sê vir hulle: Dit is die woorde wat Ek met julle gespreek het toe Ek nog by julle was, dat alles wat oor My geskrywe is in die wet van Moses en die profete en die psalms, vervul moet word.45 Toe open Hy hulle verstand om die Skrifte te verstaan.46 En Hy sê vir hulle: So is dit geskrywe, en so moes die Christus ly en op die derde dag uit die dode opstaan,47 en bekering en vergewing van sondes in sy Naam verkondig word aan al die nasies, van Jerusalem af en verder.48 En julle is getuies van hierdie dinge.49 En kyk, Ek stuur die belofte van my Vader op julle. Maar julle moet in die stad Jerusalem bly totdat julle toegerus is met krag uit die hoogte.50 En Hy het hulle uitgelei tot by Bet nië. En Hy het sy hande opgehef en hulle geseën.51 En terwyl Hy hulle seën, het Hy van hulle geskei en is in die hemel opgeneem.52 En hulle het Hom aanbid en na Jerusalem teruggegaan met groot blydskap.53 En hulle was gedurig in die tempel en het God geprys en gedank. Amen.