On the Road to Emmaus


Luke 24:13-35

13  Now that same day two of Jesus followers were going to a village named
      Emmaus, about 11 kilometers from Jerusalem.

14  and they were talking to each other about all the things that had happened.

15  As they talked and discussed, Jesus himself came up and walked
      along with them;

16  they saw him, but somehow did not recognising him.

17  Jesus said to them, "What are you talking about to each other, as you walk
      along?" They stood still, with sad faces.

18  One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, "Are you only a visitor in
      Jerusalem who doesn't know the things that have been happening there
      these last few days?"

19   "What things?" he asked. "About Jesus of Nazareth," they answered."
      This man was a prophet, and was considered by God and by all the people
      to be powerful in everything he said and did.

20  The chief priests and rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death,
      and he was crucified.

21  And we had hoped that he would be the one who was going to set Israel
      free!  Besides all that, this is now the third day since it happened.

22  Some of the women of our group surprised us;
      they went at dawn to the tomb,

23  but could not find his body.  They came back saying they had seen a
      vision of angels, who told them that he is alive.

24  Some of our group went to the tomb and found it exactly as the women
      had said, but they did not see him ."

25   Then Jesus said to them, "How foolish you are, how slow you are to
      believe everything the prophets said!

26  Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and then
      enter his glory?"

27  And Jesus explained to them what was said about himself in all the
      Scriptures, begining with the books of Moses and the writings of all
      the Prophets,

28  As they came near the village to which they were going,
      Jesus acted as if he were going farther.

29  But they held him back, saying, "Stay with us; the day is almost over
      and getting dark." So he went in to stay with them.

30  He sat down to eat with them, took the bread, and said the blessing;
      then he broke the bread and give it to them.

31  Then their eyes were opened and they recognised him, but he disappeared
      from their sight.

32  They said each other, "Wasn't it like a fire burning in us when he talked to
      us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?"

33  They got up at once and went back to Jerusalam, where they found the
      eleven disciples gathered together with the others

34  and saying, "The Lord is risen indeed! He has appeared to Simon!"

35  The two then explained th them what had happened on the road,
      and how they had recognised the Lord when he broke the bread.