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Jesus said to them, "What are you talking about to each other, as you walk along?" They stood still, with sad faces.
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One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, "Are you the only visitor in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things that have been happening there these last few days?"
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"What things?" he asked. "The things that happened to Jesus of Nazareth," they answered. "This man was a prophet and was considered by God and by all the people to be powerful in everything he said and did.
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Our chief priests and rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and he was crucified.
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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.