Luke 24
The Resurrection
But on the first day
of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb,
bringing the spices which they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away
from the tomb. They
entered in, and didn't find the Lord Jesus' body. It happened, while they were
greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling
clothing. Becoming
terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth.
They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?
He isn't here, but is
risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee, saying that the Son of Man must
be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the
third day rise again?"
They remembered his
words, returned from the
tomb, and told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.
Now they were Mary
Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them
told these things to the apostles. These words seemed to them to be
nonsense, and they didn't believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the
tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by
themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.
On the Road to Emmaus
Behold, two of them
were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem. They talked with each other
about all of these things which had happened. It happened, while they talked
and questioned together, that Jesus himself came near, and went with them.
But their eyes were kept
from recognizing him. He
said to them, "What are you talking about as you
walk, and are sad?"
One of them, named
Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who
doesn't know the things which have happened there in these days?"
He said to them,
"What things?"
They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who
was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
and how the chief
priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and
crucified him. But we
were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all
this, it is now the third day since these things happened. Also, certain women of our
company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb; and when they didn't find his
body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who
said that he was alive. Some of us went to the tomb, and
found it just like the women had said, but they didn't see him."
He said to them,
"Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all
that the prophets have spoken! Didn't the Christ have to suffer
these things and to enter into his glory?" Beginning from Moses and from
all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things
concerning himself. They
drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he
would go further.
They urged him,
saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is
almost over."
He went in to stay with them. It happened, that when he had
sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks.
Breaking it, he gave to them. Their eyes were opened, and they
recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight. They said one to another,
"Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the
way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?" They rose up that very hour,
returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those
who were with them, saying, "The Lord is risen
indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" They related the things that
happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking
of the bread.
Jesus Appears to the Disciples
As they said these
things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, "Peace be to you."
But they were
terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
He said to them,
"Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your
hearts? See my hands and
my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have
flesh and bones, as you see that I have." When he had said this, he showed
them his hands and his feet. While they still didn't believe
for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have
anything here to eat?"
They gave him a piece
of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. He took them, and ate in front
of them. He said to
them, "This is what I told you, while I was still
with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the
prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."
Then he opened their
minds, that they might understand the Scriptures. He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the
Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and
remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations,
beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these
things. Behold, I send
forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem
until you are clothed with power from on high."
The Ascension
He led them out as
far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. It happened, while he blessed
them, that he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven. They worshiped him, and returned
to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the
temple, praising and blessing God.
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