Lucas 24

Jesus appeared to two disciples as they were walking to Emmaus.

13 That same day two of Jesus’ disciples were walking to a village named Emmaus. It was about ◄seven miles/eleven kilometers► from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about all the things that had happened to Jesus. 15 While they were discussing those things, Jesus himself approached them and started walking with them. 16 But they were prevented {something prevented them} from recognizing [MTY] him. 17 Jesus said to them, "What have you two been talking about while you were walking?" They stopped, and their faces looked very sad. 18 One of them, whose name was Cleopas, said, "◄You (sg) must be the only person who is visiting Jerusalem for the Passover festival who does not know the events that have happened there in recent days!/Are you the only person who is visiting Jerusalem for the Passover festival who does not know the events that have happened there in recent days?► [RHQ]" 19 He said to them, "What events?" They replied, "The things that happened to Jesus, the man from Nazareth, who was a prophet. Many people saw him perform great miracles, and God enabled him to teach wonderful messages! 20 But our chief priests and leaders handed him over to the Roman authorities. The authorities sentenced him to die, and they killed him by nailing him to a cross. 21 We (exc) were hoping that he was the one who would free us Israelites from our enemies But this does not seem possible now, because three days have already passed since that happened. 22 On the other hand, some women from our group amazed us. Early this morning they went to the tomb, 23 but Jesus’ body was not there! They came back and said that they had seen some angels in a vision. The angels said that he was alive! 24 Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb. They saw that things were exactly as the women had reported. But they did not see Jesus." 25 He said to them, "You two foolish men! You are so slow to believe all that the prophets have written about the Messiah! 26 ◄You should certainly have known that it was necessary that the Messiah should suffer all those things and die, and then enter his glorious home in heaven!/Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer all those things and die, and then enter his glorious home in heaven?► [RHQ]" 27 Then he explained to them all the things that the prophets had written in the Scriptures about himself. He started with what Moses [MTY] wrote and then explained to them what all the other prophets wrote.

28 They came near to the village to which the two men were going. Jesus indicated that he would go further, 29 but they urged him to not do that. They said, "Stay with us tonight, because it is late in the afternoon and it will soon be dark." So he went in the house to stay with them. 30 When they sat down to eat, he took some bread and asked God to bless it. He broke it and gave some pieces to them. 31 And just then God enabled them to recognize [MTY] him. But immediately he disappeared! 32 The two men said to each other, "While we were walking along the road and he talked with us and enabled us (inc) to understand the Scriptures, we became so excited that it was as though [MET] a fire was burning within us [RHQ]! We should not stay here; we should go tell the others what happened!" 33 So they left immediately and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the eleven apostles and others who had gathered together with them 34 who told those two men, "It is true that the Lord has become alive again, and he has appeared to Peter!" 35 Then those two men told the others what had happened as they were walking along the road. They also told them how they both recognized Jesus as he broke some bread for them.