Luke 24:13-49

On the Road to Emmaus

13 That very day ¹two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles^[a] from Jerusalem,

14 and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened.

15 While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.

16 ²But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

17 And he said to them, "What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?" And they stood still, looking sad.

18 Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?"

19 And he said to them, "What things?" And they said to him, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was ³a prophet ⁴mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,

20 and ⁵how our chief priests and ⁶rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

21 But we had hoped that he was ⁷the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now ⁸the third day since these things happened.

22 Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. ⁹They were at the tomb early in the morning,

23 and ¹⁰when they did not find his body, they came back saying that ¹¹they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

24 ¹²Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see."

25 And he said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

26 ¹³Was it not necessary that ¹⁴the Christ should suffer these things and enter into ¹⁵his glory?"

27 And ¹⁶beginning with ¹⁷Moses and ¹⁸all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

28 So they drew near to the village to which they were going. ¹⁹He acted as if he were going farther,

29 but they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us, for it is toward evening and ²⁰the day is now far spent." So he went in to stay with them.

30 When he was at table with them, he took the bread and ²¹blessed and broke it and gave it to them.

31 ²²And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And ²³he vanished from their sight.

32 They said to each other, ²⁴"Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he ²⁵opened to us the Scriptures?"

33 And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they ²⁶found the eleven and ²⁷those who were with them gathered together,

34 saying, "The Lord has risen indeed, and ²⁸has appeared to Simon!"

35 Then they told what had happened on the road, and ²⁹how he was known to them in ³⁰the breaking of the bread.

Jesus Appears to His Disciples

36 As they were talking about these things, ³¹Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, "Peace to you!"

37 But they were ³²startled and ³³frightened and ³⁴thought they saw a spirit.

38 And he said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

39 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. ³⁵Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have."

40 And when he had said this, ³⁶he showed them his hands and his feet.

41 And while they still disbelieved ³⁷for joy and were marveling, ³⁸he said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?"

42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish,^[b]

43 and he took it and ate before them.

44 Then he said to them, ³⁹"These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, ⁴⁰that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."

45 Then ⁴¹he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

46 and said to them, "Thus ⁴²it is written, ⁴³that the Christ should suffer and on the third day ⁴⁴rise from the dead,

47 and that ⁴⁵repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed ⁴⁶in his name ⁴⁷to all nations, ⁴⁸beginning from Jerusalem.

48 ⁴⁹You are witnesses of these things.

49 And behold, I am sending ⁵⁰the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you ⁵¹are clothed with ⁵²power ⁵³from on high."

Cross References

• 1. Mark 16:12
• 2. John 20:14; John 21:4; [ver. 31; Luke 9:45; Luke 18:34]
• 3. See Matthew 21:11
• 4. Acts 2:22; [Acts 7:22]
• 5. Acts 2:23; Acts 5:30; Acts 13:27, 28; 1 Thessalonians 2:15
• 6. Luke 23:13, 35; John 3:1; John 7:26, 48; John 12:42; Acts 3:17; Acts 4:5, 8; Acts 13:27; [1 Corinthians 2:8]
• 7. See Luke 1:68; 1 Peter 1:18
• 8. ver. 7
• 9. ver. 1
• 10. ver. 3
• 11. ver. 4, 5, 9
• 12. ver. 12; John 20:3
• 13. ver. 7, 44, 46; Hebrews 2:10; Hebrews 12:2; 1 Peter 1:11; See Acts 3:18
• 14. See Matthew 1:17
• 15. See Luke 9:26
• 16. Acts 8:35
• 17. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 12:3; Genesis 22:18; Numbers 21:9; Numbers 24:17; [John 1:45; John 5:46]
• 18. 2 Samuel 7:12-16; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 50:6; Isaiah 52:13 - 53:12; Isaiah 61:1; Jeremiah 23:5, 6; Daniel 7:13, 14; Daniel 9:24-27; Micah 5:2; Zechariah 6:12; Zechariah 9:9; Zechariah 12:10; Zechariah 13:7; [Acts 13:27]
• 19. [Mark 6:48]
• 20. Luke 9:12(Gk.)
• 21. See Matthew 14:19
• 22. [ver. 16]
• 23. [Luke 4:30]
• 24. Psalms 39:3
• 25. ver. 45
• 26. Mark 16:13; Acts 17:3
• 27. [Acts 1:14]
• 28. 1 Corinthians 15:5
• 29. ver. 30, 31
• 30. See Acts 2:42
• 31. Mark 16:14; John 20:19
• 32. Luke 21:9
• 33. ver. 5
• 34. [Matthew 14:26; Mark 6:49]
• 35. 1 John 1:1; [John 20:27]
• 36. John 20:20
• 37. Acts 12:14; [Genesis 45:26]
• 38. John 21:5
• 39. See ver. 6
• 40. See ver. 27
• 41. ver. 32; [Job 33:16; Psalms 119:18; Acts 16:14; 1 John 5:20]
• 42. See Matthew 26:24
• 43. See ver. 7, 26
• 44. John 20:9
• 45. Acts 5:31; See Acts 2:38
• 46. See Acts 4:12
• 47. Luke 2:32; Genesis 12:3; Psalms 22:27; Isaiah 2:2; Isaiah 49:6; Hosea 2:23; Malachi 1:11; Matthew 28:19
• 48. Acts 10:37; Galatians 3:8
• 49. Acts 1:8, 22; Acts 2:32; Acts 3:15; Acts 5:32; Acts 10:39, 41; Acts 13:31; 1 Peter 5:1; [John 15:27; 1 Corinthians 15:15]
• 50. John 14:26; Acts 1:4; [Acts 2:33; Ephesians 1:13]; See Acts 2:16, 17
• 51. Job 29:14; Psalms 132:9
• 52. Acts 1:8
• 53. Luke 1:78; Isaiah 32:15

Footnotes

• [a]. Greek sixty stadia; a stadion was about 607 feet or 185 meters
• [b]. Some manuscripts add and some honeycomb