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Luke - ch 24 v 21 - 40
- But we had hoped that he was the one who is about to redeem Israel. But then, besides all these things, it is now, to-day, the third day since these things took place.
- And withal, certain women from amongst us astonished us, having been very early at the sepulchre,
- and, not having found his body, came, saying that they also had seen a vision of angels, who say that he is living.
- And some of those with us went to the sepulchre, and found it so, as the women also had said, but him they saw not.
- And he said to them, O senseless and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
- Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory?
- And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
- And they drew near to the village where they were going, and he made as though he would go farther.
- And they constrained him, saying, Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is declining. And he entered in to stay with them.
- And it came to pass as he was at table with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken it, gave it to them.
- And their eyes were opened, and they recognised him. And he disappeared from them.
- And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in us as he spoke to us on the way, and as he opened the scriptures to us?
- And rising up the same hour, they returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven, and those with them, gathered together,
- saying, The Lord is indeed risen and has appeared to Simon.
- And they related what had happened on the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of bread.
- And as they were saying these things, he himself stood in their midst, and says to them, Peace be unto you.
- But they, being confounded and being frightened, supposed they beheld a spirit.
- And he said to them, Why are ye troubled? and why are thoughts rising in your hearts?
- behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as ye see me having.
- And having said this he shewed them his hands and his feet.
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