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One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”
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“What things?” he asked. “About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.
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The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him;
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but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.
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In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning
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but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.
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Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”