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and their eyes were holden so as not to know him,
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and he said unto them, `What [are] these words that ye exchange with one another, walking, and ye are sad?'
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And the one, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said unto him, `Art thou alone such a stranger in Jerusalem, that thou hast not known the things that came to pass in it in these days?'
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And he said to them, `What things?' And they said to him, `The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man -- a prophet -- powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people,
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how also the chief priests and our rulers did deliver him up to a judgment of death, and crucified him;
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and we were hoping that he it is who is about to redeem Israel, and also with all these things, this third day is passing to-day, since these things happened.
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`And certain women of ours also astonished us, coming early to the tomb,
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and not having found his body, they came, saying also to have seen an apparition of messengers, who say he is alive,
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and certain of those with us went away unto the tomb, and found as even the women said, and him they saw not.'
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And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!
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Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?'