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¹ But on the first day of the week at early dawn they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.[xr] ² They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,[xr] ³ but when they went in, they didn't find the body of the Lord Jesus.[fn][xr] ⁴ While they were puzzling over this, two men in dazzling robes suddenly stood beside them.[xr] ⁵ Because the women were terrified and were bowing their faces to the ground, the men[fn] asked them, "Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is living? ⁶ He is not here but has been raised.[fn] Remember what he told you while he was still in Galilee,[xr] ⁷ 'the Son of Man must be handed over to sinful men, be crucified, and rise on the third day.'" ⁸ Then they remembered his words.[xr] ⁹ They returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and all the others.[xr] ¹⁰ The women who told the apostles about it were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and some[fn] others.[xr] ¹¹ But these words seemed nonsense to them, and they wouldn't believe them.[xr] ¹² Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. He stooped down and saw only the linen cloths. Then he went home wondering about what had happened.[fn][xr]

¹³ On the same day, two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles[fn] from Jerusalem.[xr] ¹⁴ They were talking with each other about all these things that had taken place. ¹⁵ While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself approached and began to walk with them,[xr] ¹⁶ but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.[xr] ¹⁷ He asked them, "What are you discussing with each other as you're walking along?" They stood still and looked gloomy. ¹⁸ The one whose name was Cleopas answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn't know what happened there these days?"[xr] ¹⁹ He asked them, "What things?" They answered him, "The things about Jesus of Nazareth,[fn] who was a prophet, mighty in the things that he did and said before God and all the people,[xr] ²⁰ and how our high priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and had him crucified.[xr] ²¹ But we kept hoping that he would be the one to redeem[fn] Israel. What is more, this is now the third day since these things occurred.[xr] ²² Even some of our women have startled us! They were at the tomb early this morning[xr] ²³ and didn't find his body there, so they came back and told us that they had actually seen a vision of angels who said he was alive. ²⁴ Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they didn't see him."[xr] ²⁵ Then Jesus[fn] said to them, "O how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe everything the prophets said! ²⁶ The Christ[fn] had to suffer these things and then enter his glory, didn't he?"[xr] ²⁷ Then, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them all the passages of Scripture about himself.[xr] ²⁸ As they came near the village where they were going, he acted as though he were going on farther.[xr] ²⁹ But they urged him strongly, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening and the day is almost gone." So he went in to stay with them.[xr] ³⁰ While he was at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed it, broke it in pieces, and gave it to them.[xr] ³¹ Then their eyes were opened, and they knew who he was. And he vanished from them. ³² Then they said to each other, "Our hearts kept burning within us[fn] as he was talking to us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us, didn't they?" ³³ That same hour they got up and went back to Jerusalem and found the eleven and their companions all together. ³⁴ They kept saying, "The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon!"[xr] ³⁵ Then they themselves began to tell what had happened on the road and how he was recognized by them when he broke the bread in pieces.

³⁶ While they were talking about this, Jesus[fn] himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."">[fn][xr] ³⁷ They were startled and terrified, thinking they were seeing a ghost.[xr] ³⁸ He said to them, "Why are you frightened, and why are doubts arising in your hearts? ³⁹ Look at my hands and my feet, for it is I myself. Touch me and see, for a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones as you see that I have."[xr] ⁴⁰ After he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.[fn] ⁴¹ While they still could not believe it for joy and were full of amazement, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"[xr] ⁴² They gave him a piece of broiled fish, ⁴³ and he took it and ate it in their presence.[xr] ⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you - that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms had to be fulfilled."[xr] ⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds so that they might come to understand the Scriptures.[xr] ⁴⁶ He said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ[fn] was to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day,[xr] ⁴⁷ and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.[xr] ⁴⁸ You are witnesses of these things.[xr] ⁴⁹ I am sending on you what my Father promised. But stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."[xr]

⁵⁰ Then he led them out as far as Bethany, lifted up his hands, and blessed them.[xr] ⁵¹ While he was blessing them, he parted from them and was taken up to heaven.[fn][xr] ⁵² They worshiped him and[fn] returned to Jerusalem with great joy.[xr] ⁵³ And they were continually in the temple blessing[fn] God.[fn][xr]