24:1 But on Sunday morning, while it was dark, they came to the tomb and they brought the spices that they had prepared, and there were other women with them.
24:2 And they found the stone which had been rolled from the tomb.
24:3 And they entered and they did not find the body of Yeshua.
24:4 And it happened that while these wondered at this, behold, two men stood above them and their clothing was shining.
24:5 And they were in fear and they bowed their faces to the ground, and they were saying to them, “Why are you seeking The Life among the dead?
24:6 He is not here; he is risen. Remember when he spoke with you as he was in Galilee,
24:7 And he said, 'The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and he shall be crucified and the third day he shall arise?' “
24:9 And they returned from the tomb and they were telling all these things to the eleven and to the rest.
24:10 And they were Maryam Magdalitha and Johanna and Maryam the mother of Yaqob, and the rest who were with them, who told these things to the Apostles.
24:11 And these words appeared as insanity in their eyes and they did not believe them.
24:12 But Shimeon arose and he ran to the tomb, and beholding, he saw the linen that was placed by itself and he left wondering in his soul over what had happened.
24:13 And behold, two of them that day were going to the village whose name is Emmaus, and it is sixty furlongs from Jerusalem.
24:14 And they were speaking with one another about all these things that had occurred.
24:15 And while they were talking and inquiring one with another, Yeshua came and he met them and he was walking with them.
24:16 And their eyes had been held shut lest they would recognize him.
24:17 And he said to them, “What are these matters of which you speak, one with another, as you are walking and are gloomy?”
24:18 One of them answered, whose name was Cleopa, and he said to him, “Are you indeed a foreigner by yourself in Jerusalem that you do not know the thing that has occurred in it in these days?”
24:19 He said to them, “What thing?” They were saying to him, “Concerning Yeshua, who was from Nazareth, a man who was The Prophet mighty in word and in deed before God, and before the whole nation.
24:20 And the Chief Priests and the Elders delivered him to the sentence of death, and they crucified him.
24:21 But we had been hoping that he was going to deliver Israel and behold, it is the third day now, since all these things occurred.
24:22 But also women among us stupefied us, for they had gone first to the tomb.
24:23 And when they did not find his body, they came and they were telling us, 'We saw Angels there', and they were saying of him, 'He is alive.'
24:24 Also, some from us went to the tomb and they found according to what the women said, but they did not see him.”
24:25 Then Yeshua said to them, “Oh deficient of mind and slow of heart to believe in all the things that The Prophets have spoken!
24:26 Was it not necessary for The Messiah to endure these things and to enter into his glory?”
24:27 And he began from Moses and from all The Prophets and he expounded to them about himself from all of the scriptures.
24:28 And they arrived at that village to which they were going, and he was announcing to them how he was going to a distant place.
24:29 And they constrained him and they were saying to him, “Stay with us, because the day is declining and it is becoming dark”, and he entered to stay with them.
24:30 And it happened that when he reclined with them, he took bread and he blessed, and he broke and he gave to them.
24:31 At once their eyes were opened and they recognized him and he ascended from them.
24:32 And they were saying one to another, “Was not our heart dull within us when he was speaking with us on the road and expounding to us the scriptures?”
24:33 And they arose in that hour, and they returned to Jerusalem, and they found the eleven assembled and those who were with them,
24:34 As they were saying, “Truly our Lord has risen and he has appeared to Shimeon!”
24:35 They also related those things that had occurred on the road and how he was known to them when he broke the bread.
24:36 And when they were speaking these things, Yeshua stood in their midst and he said to them, “Peace be with you; I AM THE LIVING GOD, be not afraid.”
24:37 And they were alarmed and were in terror, for they thought that they were seeing a ghost.
24:38 And Yeshua said to them, “Why are you shaken, and why do imaginations arise in your hearts?”
24:39 “See my hands and my feet, that it is I; touch me and know that a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”
24:40 And when he had said these things, he showed them his hands and his feet.
24:41 Even until this moment they did not believe because of their joy, and they were awe-stricken. He said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”
24:42 So they gave him a piece of roasted fish and some honeycomb.
24:44 And he said to them, “These are the words that I spoke with you when I was with you, that everything that is written about me in The Law of Moses and in The Prophets and in The Psalms must be fulfilled.”
24:45 Then he opened their mind to understand the scriptures.
24:46 And he said to them, “Thus it is written: and thus it was right for The Messiah to suffer and to arise from the grave the third day,
24:47 And that conversion to the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name in all the nations, and the beginning would be at Jerusalem.
24:49 And I shall send upon you The Promise of my Father; but you stay in the city of Jerusalem until you shall be clothed in power from on high.”
24:50 And he brought them unto Bethany and he lifted his hands and he blessed them.
24:51 And it was that as he blessed them, he was separated from them, and he ascended to Heaven.
24:52 But they worshiped him and they returned to Jerusalem in great joy.
24:53 And they were in The Temple at all times, praising and blessing God. Amen.
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