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And as they talked and deliberated, Jesus Himself came up and walked along with them.
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But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.
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He asked them, “What are you discussing so intently as you walk along?” They stood still, with sadness on their faces.
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One of them, named Cleopas, asked Him, “Are You the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in recent days?”
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“What things?” He asked. “The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people.
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Our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and they crucified Him.
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But we were hoping He was the One who would redeem Israel. And besides all this, it is the third day since these things took place.
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Furthermore, some of our women astounded us. They were at the tomb early this morning,
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but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.
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Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had described. But Him they did not see.”
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Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
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Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
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And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.
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As they approached the village where they were headed, He seemed to be going farther.
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But they pleaded with Him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So He went in to stay with them.
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While He was reclining at the table with them, He took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to them.
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Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus—and He disappeared from their sight.
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They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
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And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, gathered together
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and saying, “The Lord has indeed risen and has appeared to Simon!”
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Then the two told what had happened on the road, and how they had recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread.