Luke 24:1-19 ▼

1 And on the first [day] of the weeks, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, carrying the spices they made ready, and certain [others] with them,

2 and they found the stone having been rolled away from the tomb,

3 and having gone in, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

4 And it came to pass, while they are perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in clothing—flashing [with light];

5 and on their having become afraid, and having inclined the face to the earth, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living with the dead?

6 He is not here, but was raised; remember how He spoke to you, being yet in Galilee,

7 saying, It is necessary for the Son of Man to be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and to rise again [on] the third day.”

8 And they remembered His sayings,

9 and having turned back from the tomb, told all these things to the Eleven, and to all the rest.

10 And it was Mary the Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the other women with them, who told these things to the apostles,

11 and their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they were not believing them.

12 And Peter having risen, ran to the tomb, and having stooped down he sees the linen clothes lying alone, and he went away to his own home, wondering at that having come to pass.

13 And behold, two of them were going on during that day to a village, being sixty stadia distant from Jerusalem, the name of which [is] Emmaus,

14 and they were conversing with one another about all these things that have happened.

15 And it came to pass in their conversing and reasoning together, that Jesus Himself, having come near, was going on with them,

16 and their eyes were restrained so as not to know Him,

17 and He said to them, “What [are] these words that you exchange with one another, walking, and you are sad?”

18 And one, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said to Him, “Are You alone visiting Jerusalem and have not known the things having come to pass in it in these days?”

19 And He said to them, “What things?” And they said to Him, “The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man—a prophet—powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people,