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and, in the midst of their conversation and discussion, Jesus Himself came and joined them,
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though they were prevented from recognizing Him.
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"What is the subject," He asked them, "on which you are talking so earnestly, as you walk?" And they stood still, looking full of sorrow.
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Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered, "Are you a stranger lodging alone in Jerusalem, that you have known nothing of the things that have lately happened in the city?"
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"What things?" He asked. "The things about Jesus the Nazarene," they said, "who was a Prophet powerful in work and word before God and all the people;
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and how our High Priests and Rulers delivered Him up to be sentenced to death, and crucified Him.
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But we were hoping that it was He who was about to ransom Israel. Yes, and moreover it was the day before yesterday that these things happened.
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And, besides, some of the women of our company have amazed us. They went to the tomb at daybreak,
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and, finding that His body was not there, they came and declared to us that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive.
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Thereupon some of our party went to the tomb and found things just as the women had said; but Jesus Himself they did not see."
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"O dull-witted men," He replied, "with minds so slow to believe all that the Prophets have spoken!