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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."
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Then they related what had happened on the way, and how He had been recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.
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While they were thus talking, He Himself stood in their midst and said, "Peace be to you!"
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Startled, and in the utmost alarm, they thought they were looking at a spirit;
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but He said to them, "Why such alarm? And why are there such questionings in your minds?
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See my hands and my feet--it is my very self. Feel me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see I have."