Luke 24:27-51

²⁷Then Jesus told them all the words in God’s book that tell about him. He made it very clear to them. He started with the words that Moses wrote, and he also told them the words that God’s other men wrote.

²⁸They kept walking along as Jesus talked to them, and they came to Emmaus, the place those 2 men were going to stay. Jesus was starting to keep going on that road,

²⁹but those 2 said, “Hey, you can’t keep going to another place. It’s too late. The sun is going down. Please stay here with us tonight.” So he went with them to their house.

³⁰The 3 of them sat down at the table to have a feed, and Jesus picked up some bread and said thank you to God for it, and he broke it into bits and gave it to them.

³¹Then suddenly God stopped blocking their eyes so they could see properly, and they saw that it was Jesus talking to them. Then, as soon as they knew who he was, they couldn’t see him any more. He was gone.

³²They said to each other, “Wow. That’s why we felt really good and excited when he talked to us on the road, and he made God’s book really clear for us.”

³³Then they got up straight away, and they went back to Jerusalem. They went to see the 11 close followers of Jesus. There were other followers of Jesus at that place, too.

³⁴They were all talking together and saying, “Yes, Jesus really is alive again. He showed himself to Simon.”

³⁵Then the 2 men from Emmaus told the others their story. They told them what happened on the road, and that they suddenly saw it was Jesus while he was breaking the bread.

³⁶While they were still telling their story, suddenly Jesus was standing right there in the middle of the group. He said to them, “Hello. I hope you feel good and quiet inside yourselves.”

³⁷They were all shocked and frightened. They thought they were looking at a spirit.

³⁸But Jesus said to them, “Why are you frightened? Why do you think, ‘This can’t be Jesus’? Look, it is me.

³⁹Look at my hands and my feet. See the holes made by the nails. Touch me, to make sure I’m not a spirit. Spirits haven’t got bodies with bones in them, like I have.”

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

⁴¹They were so shocked they could hardly believe it really was Jesus, but they were really happy too. Then Jesus asked them, “Have you got anything here for me to eat?”

⁴²So they gave him a piece of cooked fish.

⁴³He got it and ate it there in front of them.

⁴⁴Then he said to them, “Remember the words I told you while I was still with you. I said that everything about me in God’s book will happen to me. You can read it in the words that Moses wrote, and in the words God’s other men wrote, and in the songs that are in God’s book.”

⁴⁵Then he helped them to understand the things that are in God’s book, like he opened their brains, so they could think properly.

⁴⁶And he said to them, “God’s book says this. The special man God will send will get a lot of trouble, and he will die, and then 3 days later he will come back to life again. That message, in God’s book, is about me.

⁴⁷And it says you have to tell everyone about me. Tell them they have to turn away from the bad things they do and turn to God, so that he will say they are not guilty. You have to start telling people that message here in Jerusalem, and then go on to other countries, till you tell it to the people in every country.

⁴⁸You see, you mob saw everything that happened, and you heard what I taught people, so now you have to tell it to everybody.

⁴⁹Listen. My Father promised to give you his Holy Spirit from heaven, so wait here in this city till I send him to you. Then you will have God’s power.”

⁵⁰Then Jesus took his followers to a town called Bethany. When they got there, he lifted up his hands and asked God to be good to them, and to make them strong.

⁵¹While he was still talking, God lifted him up and took him away from them, up into heaven.