24:5. 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?
24:6. He is not here, but is risen. Remember how he spoke unto you,
when he was yet in Galilee,
24:7. Saying: The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful
men and be crucified and the third day rise again.
24:8. And they remembered his words.
24:9. And going back from the sepulchre, they told all these things to
the eleven and to all the rest.
24:10. 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.
24:11. And these words seemed to them as idle tales: and they did not
believe them.
24:12. 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.
24:13. And behold, two of them went, the same day, to a town which was
sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, named Emmaus.
24:14. And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
24:15. And it came to pass that while they talked and reasoned with
themselves, Jesus himself also, drawing near, went with them.
24:16. But their eyes were held, that they should not know him.
24:17. And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one
with another as you walk and are sad?
24:18. And the one of them, whose name was Cleophas, answering, said to
him: Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the
things that have been done there in these days?
24:19. 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.
24:20. And how our chief priests and princes delivered him to be
condemned to death and crucified him.
24:21. But we hoped that it was he that should have redeemed Israel.
And now besides all this, to-day is the third day since these things
were done.
24:22. Yea and certain women also of our company affrighted us who,
before it was light, were at the sepulchre,
24:23. And not finding his body, came, saying that they had all seen a
vision of angels, who say that he is alive.
24:24. And some of our people went to the sepulchre and found it so as
the women had said: but him they found not.
24:25. Then he said to them: O foolish and slow of heart to believe in
all things, Which the prophets have spoken.
24:26. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and so, to enter
into his glory?
24:27. And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to
them in all the scriptures the things that were concerning him.
24:28. And they drew nigh to the town whither they were going: and he
made as though he would go farther.
24:29. But they constrained him, saying: Stay with us, because it is
towards evening and the day is now far spent. And he went in with them.
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