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| 24:1 |
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.
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| 24:2 |
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
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| 24:3 |
but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
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| 24:4 |
While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them.
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| 24:5 |
In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead?
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| 24:6 |
He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:
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| 24:7 |
`The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.' "
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| 24:8 |
Then they remembered his words.
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| 24:9 |
When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others.
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| 24:10 |
It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles.
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| 24:11 |
But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.
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| 24:12 |
Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.
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| 24:13 |
Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
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| 24:14 |
They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.
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| 24:15 |
As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them;
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| 24:16 |
but they were kept from recognizing him.
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| 24:17 |
He asked them, "What are you discussing together as you walk along?" They stood still, their faces downcast.
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| 24:18 |
One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, "Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?"
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| 24:19 |
"What things?" he asked. "About Jesus of Nazareth," they replied. "He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.
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| 24:20 |
The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him;
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| 24:21 |
but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.
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| 24:22 |
In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning
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| 24:23 |
but didn't find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.
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| 24:24 |
Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see."
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| 24:25 |
He said to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
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| 24:26 |
Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?"
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| 24:27 |
And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
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| 24:28 |
As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus acted as if he were going farther.
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| 24:29 |
But they urged him strongly, "Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over." So he went in to stay with them.
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| 24:30 |
When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.
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| 24:31 |
Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.
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| 24:32 |
They asked each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?"
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| 24:33 |
They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together
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| 24:34 |
and saying, "It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon."
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| 24:35 |
Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.
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| 24:36 |
While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."
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| 24:37 |
They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost.
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| 24:38 |
He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?
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| 24:39 |
Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have."
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| 24:40 |
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet.
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| 24:41 |
And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"
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| 24:42 |
They gave him a piece of broiled fish,
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| 24:43 |
and he took it and ate it in their presence.
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| 24:44 |
He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."
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| 24:45 |
Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.
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| 24:46 |
He told them, "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
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| 24:47 |
and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
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| 24:48 |
You are witnesses of these things.
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| 24:49 |
I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."
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| 24:50 |
When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them.
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| 24:51 |
While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.
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| 24:52 |
Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.
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| 24:53 |
And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God.
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