²⁸As they came near the village to which they were going, he walked ahead as if he were going on.^* ²⁹But 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. ³⁰When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.^* ³¹Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished from their sight. ³²They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us^p while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?” ³³That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem, and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together.^* ³⁴They were saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon!”^* ³⁵Then 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

³⁶While they were talking about this, Jesus^q himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”^r ³⁷They were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost.^* ³⁸He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? ³⁹Look 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.”^* ⁴⁰And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.^s ⁴¹Yet for all their joy they were still disbelieving and wondering, and he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”^* ⁴²They gave him a piece of broiled fish,^t ⁴³and he took it and ate in their presence.^*

⁴⁴Then 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.”^* ⁴⁵Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,

Read in Logos

Luke 24:38–39: And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”

Footnotes

pOther ancient authorities lack within us
qGk he
rOther ancient authorities lack and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
sOther ancient authorities lack 24:40
tOther ancient authorities add and some honeycomb

Cross references

*Gen 3:15; Num 21:9; Deut 18:15; Isa 7:14; 9:6; 40:10, 11; 53; Dan 9:24; Mic 7:20; Mal 3:1
*Mk 6:48
*Mt 14:19
*Acts 1:14
*1 Cor 15:5
*Mk 6:49
*Jn 20:27
*Jn 21:5
*Acts 10:41
*Mt 16:21; Mk 8:31; Lk 9:22; 18:31