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Luke - ch 24 v 1 - 20
- And on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared.
- And they found the stone rolled back from the sepulchre.
- And going in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
- And it came to pass, as they were astonished in their mind at this, behold, two men stood by them, in shining apparel.
- And as they were afraid, and bowed down their countenance towards the ground, they said unto them: Why seek you the living with the dead?
- He is not here, but is risen. Remember how he spoke unto you, when he was in Galilee,
- Saying: The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
- And they remembered his words.
- And going back from the sepulchre, they told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.
- And it was Mary Magdalen, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the other women that were with them, who told these things to the apostles.
- And these words seemed to them as idle tales; and they did not believe them.
- But Peter rising up, ran to the sepulchre, and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths laid by themselves; and went away wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
- And behold, two of them went, the same day, to a town which was sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, named Emmaus.
- And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
- And it came to pass, that while they talked and reasoned with themselves, Jesus himself also drawing near, went with them.
- But their eyes were held, that they should not know him.
- And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one with another as you walk, and are sad?
- And the one of them, whose name was Cleophas, answering, said to him: Art thou only a stranger to Jerusalem, and hast not known the things that have been done there in these days?
- To whom he said: What things? And they said: Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in work and word before God and all the people;
- And how our chief priests and princes delivered him to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
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