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Then he said, "What are these things you are talking about while you walk?" The two followers stopped, looking very sad.
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The one named Cleopas answered, "Are you the only visitor in Jerusalem who does not know what just happened there?"
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Jesus said to them, "What are you talking about?" They said, "About Jesus of Nazareth. He was a prophet who said and did many powerful things before God and all the people.
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Our leaders and the leading priests handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him.
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But we were hoping that he would free Israel. Besides this, it is now the third day since this happened.
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And today some women among us amazed us. Early this morning they went to the tomb,
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but they did not find his body there. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels who said that Jesus was alive!
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So some of our group went to the tomb, too. They found it just as the women said, but they did not see Jesus."
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Then Jesus said to them, "You are foolish and slow to believe everything the prophets said.
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They said that the Christ must suffer these things before he enters his glory."
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Then starting with what Moses and all the prophets had said about him, Jesus began to explain everything that had been written about himself in the Scriptures.