✧1Now upon the first [day] of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain [others] with them. ✧2And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. ✧3And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. ✧4And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: ✧5And as they were afraid, and bowed down [their] faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? ✧6He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, ✧7Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. ✧8And they remembered his words,
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✧9And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.
✧10It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary [the mother] of James, and other [women that were] with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
✧11And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
✧12Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
✧13And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem [about] threescore furlongs.
✧14And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
✧15And it came to pass, that, while they communed [together] and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
✧16But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
✧17And he said unto them, What manner of communications [are] these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
✧18And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
✧19And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
✧20And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
✧21But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
✧22Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;
✧23And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
✧24And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found [it] even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
✧25Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
✧26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
✧27And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
✧28And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.
✧29But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
✧30And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed [it], and brake, and gave to them.
✧31And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
✧32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
✧33And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,
✧34Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
✧35And they told what things [were done] in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
✧36And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace [be] unto you.
✧37But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
✧38And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
✧39Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
✧40And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them [his] hands and [his] feet.
✧41And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
✧42And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
✧44And he said unto them, These [are] the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and [in] the prophets, and [in] the psalms, concerning me.
✧45Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
✧46And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
✧47And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.