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¹³Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.

¹⁴They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened.

¹⁵It happened, while they talked and questioned together, that Jesus himself came near, and went with them.

¹⁶But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

¹⁷He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?"

¹⁸One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only one travelling in Jerusalem who doesn`t know the things which have happened there in these days?"

¹⁹He 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;

²⁰and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

²¹But we hoped that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

²²Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having been early at the tomb;

²³and 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.

²⁴Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn`t see him."

²⁵He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

²⁶Didn`t the Christ have to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?"

²⁷Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

²⁸They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.

²⁹They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.

³⁰It happened, when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.

³¹Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.

³²They said one to another, "Wasn`t our heart burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the scriptures to us?"

³³They rose up that very hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,

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

³⁵They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.