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Jesus on the Road to Emmaus

Jesus on the Road to Emmaus



JESUS WAS LATER REVEALED in another way. That day two of them were walking into the country to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were discussing everything that had taken place. As they talked and reasoned, Jesus Himself approached and walked with them. But they were kept from recognizing Him.

He asked them, “What are you talking about with each other as you walk along with such sad faces?”

One, named Cleopas, answered, “Are You the only One staying in Jerusalem who doesn’t know about the events that have happened there recently?”
“What things?” He answered.

“The things about Jesus of Nazareth, a prophet who was powerful in both deed and word before God and all the people. The chief priests and our rulers handed Him over to be condemned to death by crucifixion. We were hoping it was He who would redeem Israel."
 
“What’s more, this is the third day since these things happened, and today some women from our group astonished us. They were at the tomb early this morning and didn’t find His body. They returned saying they had even seen a vision of angels who told them He was alive! Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they didn’t see Him.”

Then He said to them, “O foolish people who are slow of heart to believe everything the prophets spoke! Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and then enter into His glory?” Beginning with Moses and all the prophets, He explained to them in all the Scriptures the passages about Himself.

As they approached the village where they were going, He acted as if He would go farther. But they pleaded with Him. “Stay with us,” they said, “because evening is near and the day is almost gone.” So He went in to stay with them.

As He reclined at the table with them, He took the bread and blessed and broke it and began giving it to them. Their eyes were opened, and they knew who He was. Then He vanished from their sight.

They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us as He spoke with us on the road and kept explaining the Scriptures to us?”

That very hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the eleven and those with them gathered together and saying to each other, “The Lord has really risen! He appeared to Simon!”

Then they told them what had happened to them on the road and how they had recognized Jesus when He broke the bread. But they didn’t believe them.


Cheney, Johnston M., Stanley A. Ellisen, and Johnston M. Cheney. Jesus Christ The Greatest Life: A Unique Blending of the Four Gospels. Eugene, OR: Paradise Publishing Inc., 1999. Print.

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