Part 41

024:018 Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered, "Are you a stranger lodging alone in Jerusalem, that you have known nothing of the things that have lately happened in the city?"

024:019 "What things?" He asked. "The things about Jesus the Nazarene," they said, "who was a Prophet powerful in work and word before God and all the people;

024:020 and how our High Priests and Rulers delivered Him up to be sentenced to death, and crucified Him.

024:021 But we were hoping that it was He who was about to ransom Israel. Yes, and moreover it was the day before yesterday that these things happened.

024:022 And, besides, some of the women of our company have amazed us. They went to the tomb at daybreak,

024:023 and, finding that His body was not there, they came and declared to us that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive.

024:024 Thereupon some of our party went to the tomb and found things just as the women had said; but Jesus Himself they did not see."

024:025 "O dull-witted men," He replied, "with minds so slow to believe all that the Prophets have spoken!

024:026 Was there not a necessity for the Christ thus to suffer, and then enter into His glory?"

024:027 And, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them the passages in Scripture which refer to Himself.

024:028 When they had come near the village to which they were going, He appeared to be going further.

024:029 But they pressed Him to remain with them. "Because," said they, "it is getting towards evening, and the day is nearly over." So He went in to stay with them.

024:030 But as soon as He had sat down with them, and had taken the bread and had blessed and broken it, and was handing it to them,

024:031 their eyes were opened and they recognized Him. But He vanished from them.

024:032 "Were not our hearts," they said to one another, "burning within us while He talked to us on the way and explained the Scriptures to us?"

024:033 So they rose and without an hour's delay returned to Jerusalem, and found the Eleven and the rest met together, who said to them,

024:034 "Yes, it is true: the Master has come back to life. He has been seen by Simon."

024:035 Then they related what had happened on the way, and how He had been recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

024:036 While they were thus talking, He Himself stood in their midst and said, "Peace be to you!"

024:037 Startled, and in the utmost alarm, they thought they were looking at a spirit;

024:038 but He said to them, "Why such alarm? And why are there such questionings in your minds?

024:039 See my hands and my feet--it is my very self. Feel me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see I have."

024:040 And then He showed them His hands and His feet.

024:041 But, while they still could not believe it for joy and were full of astonishment, He asked them, "Have you any food here?"

024:042 And they gave Him a piece of roasted fish,

024:043 and He took it and ate it in their presence.

024:044 And He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you--that everything must be fulfilled that is written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and the Psalms concerning me."

024:045 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,