Luke 24:25-51

²⁵He said to them, “ You two foolish men! You are so slow to believe all that the prophets have written about the Messiah!

²⁶◄ You should certainly have known that it was necessary that the Messiah should suffer all those things and die, and then enter his glorious home in heaven!/Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer all those things and die, and then enter his glorious home in heaven?► RHQ”

²⁷Then he explained to them all the things that the prophets had written in the Scriptures about himself. He started with what Moses MTY wrote and then explained to them what all the other prophets wrote.

²⁸They came near to the village to which the two men were going. Jesus indicated that he would go further,

²⁹but they urged him to not do that. They said, “Stay with us tonight, because it is late in the afternoon and it will soon be dark.” So he went in the house to stay with them.

³⁰When they sat down to eat, he took some bread and asked God to bless it. He broke it and gave some pieces to them.

³¹And just then God enabled them to recognize MTY him. But immediately he disappeared!

³²The two men said to each other, “ While we were walking along the road and he talked with us and enabled us (inc) to understand the Scriptures, we became so excited that it was as though MET a fire was burning within us RHQ! We should not stay here; we should go tell the others what happened!”

³³So they left immediately and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the eleven apostles and others who had gathered together with them

³⁴who told those two men, “It is true that the Lord has become alive again, and he has appeared to Peter!”

³⁵Then those two men told the others what had happened as they were walking along the road. They also told them how they both recognized Jesus as he broke some bread for them.

³⁶As they were saying that, Jesus himself suddenly appeared among them. He said to them, “ May God give you inner peace!”

³⁷They were startled and afraid, because they thought that they were seeing a ghost!

³⁸He said to them, “◄You should not be alarmed!/Why are you alarmed?► RHQ And ◄you should not be doubting that I am alive/Jesus!/why are you doubting that I am alive/Jesus?► RHQ

³⁹Look at the wounds in my hands and my feet! You can touch me and see my body. Then you can see that it is really I myself. You can tell that I am really alive because ghosts do not have bodies, as you see that I have!”

⁴⁰After he said that, he showed them the wounds in his hands and his feet.

⁴¹They were joyful and amazed, but they still did not believe that he was really alive (OR, that Jesus was the one that they were seeing). So he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

⁴²So they gave him a piece of broiled fish.

⁴³While they were watching, he took it and ate it.

⁴⁴Then he said to them, “ I will repeat what I told you while I was still with you: Everything that was written about me by Moses and the other prophets MTY and in the Psalms must be fulfilled!”

⁴⁵Then he enabled them to understand the things that had been written about him in the Scriptures.

⁴⁶He said to them, “This is what they wrote: That the Messiah would suffer and die, but on the third day after that he would become alive again.

⁴⁷They also wrote that the message must be preached { that his disciples must preach the message} everywhere that people must turn from their sinful ways for God to forgive their sins. They wrote that his followers should preach that message, claiming his authority MTY. They wrote that they should start preaching it in Jerusalem, and then go and preach it to all ethnic groups.

⁴⁸You apostles must tell people that you know that those things that happened to me are true.

⁴⁹And I want you to know that I will send the Holy Spirit MTY to you, as my Father promised that he would do. But you must stay in this city until God fills you with the power of his Spirit.”

⁵⁰Then Jesus led them outside the city until they came near Bethany village. There he lifted up his hands and blessed them.

⁵¹As he was doing that, he left them and went up to heaven.