Luke 24:25-51

²⁵Jesus said to them, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

²⁶Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?”

²⁷Then beginning from Moses and through all the prophets, Jesus interpreted to them the things concerning himself in all the scriptures.

²⁸As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus acted as though he were going further.

²⁹But they compelled him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is almost over.” So Jesus went in to stay with them.

³⁰It happened that, when he had sat down with them to eat, he took the bread, blessed it, and breaking it, he gave it to them.

³¹Then their eyes were opened, and they knew him, and he vanished out of their sight.

³²They said one to another, “Was not our heart burning within us, while he spoke to us on the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?”

³³They rose up that very hour, and returned to Jerusalem. They found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,

³⁴saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon.”

³⁵So they told the things that happened on the way, and how Jesus was shown to them in the breaking of the bread.

³⁶As they spoke these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

³⁷But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they saw a spirit.

³⁸Jesus said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why do questions arise in your heart?

³⁹See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see me having.”

⁴⁰When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

⁴¹They still could not believe it because of joy, and they were amazed. Jesus said to them, “Do you have anything to eat?”

⁴²They gave him a piece of a broiled fish,

⁴³and he took it and ate it before them.

⁴⁴He said to them, “When I was with you, I told you that all that was written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

⁴⁵Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the scriptures.

⁴⁶He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead on the third day.

⁴⁷Repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

⁴⁸You are witnesses of these things.

⁴⁹See, I am sending you what my Father promised. But remain in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”

⁵⁰Then Jesus led them out until they were near Bethany. He lifted up his hands and blessed them.

⁵¹It happened that, while he was blessing them, he left them and was carried up into heaven.