Luke 24

Jesus Has Risen

24:1–10pp—Mt 28:1–8; Mk 16:1–8; Jn 20:1–8

24On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared^u and went to the tomb. ²They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, ³but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.^{v 4}While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning^w stood beside them. ⁵In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? ⁶He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:^{x 7}‘The Son of Man^y must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”^{z 8}Then they remembered his words.^a

⁹When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. ¹⁰It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them^b who told this to the apostles.^{c 11}But they did not believe^d the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. ¹²Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves,^e and he went away,^f wondering to himself what had happened.

On the Road to Emmaus

¹³Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles^a from Jerusalem.^{g 14}They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. ¹⁵As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them;^{h 16}but they were kept from recognizing him.ⁱ

¹⁷He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. ¹⁸One of them, named Cleopas,^j asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

¹⁹“What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,”^k they replied. “He was a prophet,^l powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. ²⁰The chief priests and our rulers^m handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; ²¹but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel.ⁿ And what is more, it is the third day^o since all this took place. ²²In addition, some of our women amazed us.^p They went to the tomb early this morning ²³but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. ²⁴Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”^q

²⁵He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! ²⁶Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”^{r 27}And beginning with Moses^s and all the Prophets,^t he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.^u

²⁸As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. ²⁹But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

³⁰When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it^v and began to give it to them. ³¹Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him,^w and he disappeared from their sight. ³²They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us^x while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures^y to us?”

³³They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together ³⁴and saying, “It is true! The Lord^z has risen and has appeared to Simon.”^{a 35}Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.^b

Jesus Appears to the Disciples

³⁶While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”^c

³⁷They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost.^{d 38}He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? ³⁹Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see;^e a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

⁴⁰When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. ⁴¹And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” ⁴²They gave him a piece of broiled fish, ⁴³and he took it and ate it in their presence.^f

⁴⁴He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you:^g Everything must be fulfilled^h that is written about me in the Law of Moses,ⁱ the Prophets^j and the Psalms.”^k

⁴⁵Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. ⁴⁶He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer^l and rise from the dead on the third day,^{m 47}and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his nameⁿ to all nations,^o beginning at Jerusalem.^{p 48}You are witnesses^q of these things. ⁴⁹I am going to send you what my Father has promised;^r but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

The Ascension of Jesus

⁵⁰When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany,^s he lifted up his hands and blessed them. ⁵¹While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.^{t 52}Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. ⁵³And they stayed continually at the temple,^u praising God.