Luke 24:28-49

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²⁸ As they came near the village to which they were going, he walked ahead as if he were going on.^{(A) 29} But they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over.” So he went in to stay with them. ³⁰ When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.^{(B) 31} Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished from their sight. ³² They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us^[a] while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?” ³³ That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem, and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together.^{(C) 34} They were saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon!”^{(D) 35} Then they told what had happened on the road and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread.

Jesus Appears to His Disciples

³⁶ While they were talking about this, Jesus^[b] himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”^{[c] 37} They were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost.^{(E) 38} He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? ³⁹ Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see, for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”^{(F) 40} And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.^{[d] 41} Yet for all their joy they were still disbelieving and wondering, and he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”^{(G) 42} They gave him a piece of broiled fish,^{[e] 43} and he took it and ate in their presence.^(H)

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 must be fulfilled.”^{(I) 45} Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, ⁴⁶ and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah^[f] is^[g] to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day^{(J) 47} and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.^{(K) 48} You are witnesses^[h] of these things.^{(L) 49} And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”^(M)