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but they held him back, saying, "Stay with us, for it's almost evening, and it's getting dark." So he went in to stay with them.
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As he was reclining with them at the table, he took the matzah, made the b'rakhah, broke it and handed it to them.
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Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. But he became invisible to them.
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They said to each other, "Didn't our hearts burn inside us as he spoke to us on the road, opening up the Tanakh to us?"
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They got up at once, returned to Yerushalayim and found the Eleven gathered together with their friends,
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saying, "It's true! The Lord has risen! Shim`on saw him!"
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Then the two told what had happened on the road and how he had become known to them in the breaking of the matzah.
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They were still talking about it when -- there he was, standing among them!
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Startled and terrified, they thought they were seeing a ghost.
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But he said to them, "Why are you so upset? Why are these doubts welling up inside you?
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Look at my hands and my feet -- it is I, myself! Touch me and see -- a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones, as you can see I do."