The Road to Emmaus
Two of the followers head toward Emmaus on the same day, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
T13hat same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
They talk with each other about everything that has happened.
14They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.
While they speak and deliberate, Jesus comes near and walks with them.
15And as they talked and deliberated, Jesus Himself came up and walked along with them.
Their eyes are kept from recognizing him.
16But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.
Jesus asks what they are discussing so intently.
17He asked them, “What are you discussing so intently as you walk along?”
Cleopas answers with sadness and asks whether Jesus is the only visitor in Jerusalem unaware of the recent events.
18They stood still, with sadness on their faces. 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?”
Jesus asks what things they mean.
19“What things?” He asked.
They describe Jesus of Nazareth as a prophet, powerful before God and the people, handed over by the chief priests and rulers, and crucified.
20“The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people. Our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and they crucified Him.
They had hoped he would redeem Israel, but now the third day has arrived.
21But 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.
They add that the women astonished them by finding the tomb early in the morning.
22Furthermore, some of our women astounded us. They were at the tomb early this morning,
The women found no body and said they had seen a vision of angels declaring that Jesus was alive.
23but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.
Some companions went to the tomb and found it as the women said, but they did not see Jesus.
24Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had described. But Him they did not see.”
Jesus rebukes them as foolish and slow to believe all that the prophets had spoken.
25Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
He asks whether the Christ had to suffer these things before entering his glory.
26Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
Beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explains the Scriptures concerning himself.
27And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.
As they near the village, Jesus acts as though he will go farther.
28As they approached the village where they were headed, He seemed to be going farther.
They urge him to stay because evening is near and the day is ending.
29But they pleaded with Him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.”
He stays, takes bread at the table, blesses it, breaks it, and gives it to them.
30So He went in to stay with them. While He was reclining at the table with them, He took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to them.
Their eyes are opened and they recognize Jesus, and he disappears from their sight.
31Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus — and He disappeared from their sight.
They speak to each other about burning hearts as he talked and opened the Scriptures on the road.
32They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
They rise that same hour and return to Jerusalem.
33And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem.
They find the Eleven and the others saying that the Lord has indeed risen and has appeared to Simon.
34There they found the Eleven and those with them, gathered together and saying, “The Lord has indeed risen and has appeared to Simon!”
The two tell what happened on the road and how they recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread.
35Then the two told what had happened on the road, and how they had recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread.