The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Luke 24
1 But on the first day of the week, at early
dawn, they and some others came to the
tomb, bringing the spices which they had
prepared.
2 They found the stone rolled away from
the tomb.
3 They entered in, and didn’t find the
Lord Jesus’ body.
4 While they were greatly perplexed
about this, behold, two men stood by them
in dazzling clothing.
5 Becoming terrified, they bowed their
faces down to the earth.
The men said to them, “Why do you seek
the living among the dead?
6 He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember
what he told you when he was still in
Galilee,
7 saying that the Son of Man must be
delivered up into the hands of sinful men
and be crucified, and the third day rise
again?”
8 They remembered his words,
9 returned from the tomb, and told all
these things to the eleven and to all the rest.
10 Now they were Mary Magdalene,
Joanna, and Mary the mother of James.
The other women with them told these
things to the apostles.
11 These words seemed to them to be
nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.
12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb.
Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips
of linen lying by themselves, and he
departed to his home, wondering what had
happened.
13 Behold, two of them were going that
very day to a village named Emmaus,
which was sixty stadia† from Jerusalem.
14 They talked with each other about all
of these things which had happened.
15 While they talked and questioned together,
Jesus himself came near, and went
with them.
16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
17 He said to them, “What are you talking
about as you walk, and are sad?”
18 One of them, named Cleopas, answered him,
“Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem
who doesn’t know the things which have
happened there in these days?”
19 He said to them, “What things?”
They said to him, “The things concerning
Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet
mighty in deed and word before God and
all the people;
20 and how the chief priests and our
rulers delivered him up to be condemned
to death, and crucified him.
21 But we were hoping that it was he who
would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all
this, it is now the third day since these
things happened.
22 Also, certain women of our company
amazed us, having arrived early at the
tomb;
23 and when they didn’t find his body,
they came saying that they had also seen a
visionof angels, who saidthathe was alive.
24 Some of us wentto the tomb and found
it just like the women had said, but they
didn’t see him.”
25 He said to them, “Foolish people, and
slow of heart to believe in all that the
prophets have spoken!
26 Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these
things and to enter into his glory?”
27 Beginning from Moses and from all
the prophets, he explained to them in all
the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
28 They came near to the village where
they were going, and he acted like he
would go further.
29 They urged him, saying, “Stay with
us, for it is almost evening, and the day is
almost over.” He went in to stay with them.
30 When he had sat down at the table
with them, he took the bread and gave
thanks. Breaking it, he gave it to them.
31 Their eyes were opened and they recognized
him; then he vanished out of their sight.
32 They said to one another, “Weren’t our
hearts burning within us while he spoke to
us along the way, and while he opened the
Scriptures to us?”
33 They rose up that very hour, returned
to Jerusalem, and found the eleven
gathered together, and those who were
with them,
34 saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and
has appeared to Simon!”
35 They related the things that happened
along the way, and how he was recognized
by them in the breaking of the bread.
36 As they said these things, Jesus himself
stood among them, and said to them,
“Peace be to you.”
37 But they were terrified and filled with
fear, and supposed that they had seen
a spirit.
38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled?
Why do doubts arise in your hearts?
39 See my hands and my feet, that it is
truly me. Touch me and see, for
a spirit doesn ’t have flesh and
bones, as you see that I have.
40 When he had said this, he showed
them his hands and his feet.
41 While they still didn’t believe for joy,
and wondered, he said to them, “Do you
have anything here to eat?
42 They gave him a piece of
a broiled fish and some honey comb.
43 He took them, and ate in front of them.
44 He saidto them, “This is what I told you
while I was still with you, that all things
which are written in the law of Moses, the
prophets, and the psalms concerning me
must be fulfilled.
45 Then he opened their minds, that they
might understand the Scriptures.
46 He said to them,“Thus it is written,
and thus it was necessary for the Christ to
suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
47 and that repentance and remission of
sins should be preached in his name to all
the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
48 You are witnesses of these things.
49 Behold,I send out the promise of
my Father on you. But wait in the city
of Jerusalem until you are clothed with
power from on high.
50 He led them out as far as Bethany, and
he lifted up his hands and blessed them.
51 While he blessed them, he withdrew from
them and was carried up into heaven.
52 They worshiped him and returned to
Jerusalem with great joy,
53 and were continually in the temple,
praising and blessing God. Amen.