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But now some of our women have completely confused us. Early this morning they were at the tomb
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and couldn't find his body. They came back with the story that they had seen a vision of angels who said he was alive.
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Some of our friends went off to the tomb to check and found it empty just as the women said, but they didn't see Jesus."
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Then he said to them, "So thick-headed! So slow-hearted! Why can't you simply believe all that the prophets said?
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Don't you see that these things had to happen, that the Messiah had to suffer and only then enter into his glory?"
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Then he started at the beginning, with the Books of Moses, and went on through all the Prophets, pointing out everything in the Scriptures that referred to him.
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They came to the edge of the village where they were headed. He acted as if he were going on
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but they pressed him: "Stay and have supper with us. It's nearly evening; the day is done." So he went in with them.
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And here is what happened: He sat down at the table with them. Taking the bread, he blessed and broke and gave it to them.
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At that moment, open-eyed, wide-eyed, they recognized him. And then he disappeared.
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Back and forth they talked. "Didn't we feel on fire as he conversed with us on the road, as he opened up the Scriptures for us?"