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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!
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Was there not a necessity for the Christ thus to suffer, and then enter into His glory?"
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And, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them the passages in Scripture which refer to Himself.
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When they had come near the village to which they were going, He appeared to be going further.
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But they pressed Him to remain with them. "Because," said they, "it is getting towards evening, and the day is nearly over." So He went in to stay with them.
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But as soon as He had sat down with them, and had taken the bread and had blessed and broken it, and was handing it to them,
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their eyes were opened and they recognized Him. But He vanished from them.
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"Were not our hearts," they said to one another, "burning within us while He talked to us on the way and explained the Scriptures to us?"
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So they rose and without an hour's delay returned to Jerusalem, and found the Eleven and the rest met together, who said to them,
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"Yes, it is true: the Master has come back to life. He has been seen by Simon."