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but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.
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And he said to them, "What [are] these matters that you are discussing with one another [as you] are walking along?" And they stood still, looking sad.
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And one [of them], {named} Cleopas, answered [and] said to him, "[Are] you the only one living near Jerusalem and not knowing the things that have happened in it in these days?"
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And he said to them, "What [things]?" So they said to him, "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, a man who was a prophet, powerful in deed and word before God and all the people,
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and how our chief priests and rulers handed him over to a sentence of death, and crucified him.
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But we were hoping that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. But in addition to all these [things], this [is] the third day {since} these [things] took place.
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But also some women from among us astonished us, who were at the tomb early in the morning,
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and [when they] did not find his body, they came back saying [they] had seen even a vision of angels, who said [that] he was alive!
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And some of those with us went out to the tomb and found [it] like this, just as the women had also said, but him they did not see."
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And he said to them, "O foolish and slow in heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
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Was it not necessary [that] the Christ suffer these [things] and enter into his glory?"