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Although they saw him, they didn't recognize him.
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He asked them, "What are you discussing?" They stopped and looked very sad.
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One of them, Cleopas, replied, "Are you the only one in Jerusalem who doesn't know what has happened recently?"
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"What happened?" he asked. They said to him, "We were discussing what happened to Jesus from Nazareth. He was a powerful prophet in what he did and said in the sight of God and all the people.
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Our chief priests and rulers had him condemned to death and crucified.
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We were hoping that he was the one who would free Israel. What's more, this is now the third day since everything happened.
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Some of the women from our group startled us. They went to the tomb early this morning
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and didn't find his body. They told us that they had seen angels who said that he's alive.
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Some of our men went to the tomb and found it empty, as the women had said, but they didn't see him."
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Then Jesus said to them, "How foolish you are! You're so slow to believe everything the prophets said!
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Didn't the Messiah have to suffer these things and enter into his glory?"