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THE ROAD TO EMMAUS STORY

Then some of those with us went to the tomb

Luke 24:13-35

and found things just as the women had
described, but him they did not see.”

Now that very day two of them were going to
a village seven miles from Jerusalem called

And he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are!

Emmaus, and they were conversing about all

How slow of heart to believe all that the

the things that had occurred. And it happened

prophets spoke! Was it not necessary that the

that while they were conversing and debating,

Messiah should suffer these things and enter

Jesus himself drew near and walked with them,

into his glory?” Then beginning with Moses

but their eyes were prevented from recognizing

and all the prophets, he interpreted to them

him. He asked them, “What are you discussing

what referred to him in all the scriptures.

as you walk along?”
As they approached the village to which they
They stopped, looking downcast. One of them,

were going, he gave the impression that he was

named Cleopas, said to him in reply, “Are you

going on farther. But they urged him, “Stay

the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not

with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is

know of the things that have taken place there

almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

in these days?” And he replied to them, “What

And it happened that, while he was with them

sort of things?” They said to him, “The things

at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke

that happened to Jesus the Nazarene, who was

it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were

a prophet mighty in deed and word before God

opened and they recognized him, but he

and all the people, how our chief priests and

vanished from their sight. Then they said to

rulers both handed him over to a sentence of

each other, “Were not our hearts burning

death and crucified him. But we were hoping

[within us] while he spoke to us on the way and

that he would be the one to redeem Israel; and

opened the scriptures to us?” So they set out at

besides all this, it is now the third day since this

once and returned to Jerusalem where they

took place. Some women from our group,

found gathered together the eleven and those

however, have astounded us: they were at the

with them who were saying, “The