While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men stood by them in dazzling clothes.
So the women were terrified and bowed down to the ground.
“Why are you looking for the living among the dead? ” asked the men.
“He is not here, but he has risen! Remember how he spoke to you when he was still in Galilee,
“saying, ‘It is necessary that the Son of Man be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, be crucified, and rise on the third day’? ”
Returning from the tomb, they reported all these things to the Eleven and to all the rest.
Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them were telling the apostles these things.
But these words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.
And while they were discussing and arguing, Jesus himself came near and began to walk along with them.
The one named Cleopas answered him, “Are you the only visitor in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things that happened there in these days? ”
“What things? ” he asked them.
So they said to him, “The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet powerful in action and speech before God and all the people,
“and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him.
“But we were hoping that he was the one who was about to redeem Israel. Besides all this, it’s the third day since these things happened.
“Moreover, some women from our group astounded us. They arrived early at the tomb,
“and when they didn’t find his body, they came and reported that they had seen a vision of angels who said he was alive.
“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.”
“Wasn’t it necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and enter into his glory? ”
Then beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted for them the things concerning himself in all the Scriptures.
They came near the village where they were going, and he gave the impression that he was going farther.
But they urged him, “Stay with us, because it’s almost evening, and now the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.
It was as he reclined at the table with them that he took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.
Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, but he disappeared from their sight.
They said to each other, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us while he was talking with us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us? ”
That very hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem. They found the Eleven and those with them gathered together,
Then they began to describe what had happened on the road and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.
As they were saying these things, he himself stood in their midst. He said to them, “Peace to you! ”
“Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself! Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.”
But while they still were amazed and in disbelief because of their joy, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat? ”
He told 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 must be fulfilled.”
Then he led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them.
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