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And we had hoped that he would be the one who was going to set Israel free! Besides all that, this is now the third day since it happened.
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Some of the women of our group surprised us; they went at dawn to the tomb,
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but could not find his body. They came back saying they had seen a vision of angels who told them that he is alive.
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Some of our group went to the tomb and found it exactly as the women had said, but they did not see him."
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Then Jesus said to them, "How foolish you are, how slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!
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Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and then to enter his glory?"
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And Jesus explained to them what was said about himself in all the Scriptures, beginning with the books of Moses and the writings of all the prophets.
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As they came near the village to which they were going, Jesus acted as if he were going farther;
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but they held him back, saying, "Stay with us; the day is almost over and it is getting dark." So he went in to stay with them.
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He sat down to eat with them, took the bread, and said the blessing; then he broke the bread and gave it to them.
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Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he disappeared from their sight.