Luke 24:3-19

³and, on going into it, they could not find the body.

⁴While they were at a loss to account for this, all at once two men stood beside them, in dazzling clothing.

⁵But, when in their fear the women bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why are you looking amongst the dead for him who is living?

⁶Remember how he spoke to you before he left Galilee —

⁷How he said that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of wicked men, and be crucified, and rise again on the third day.”

⁸Then they remembered the words of Jesus,

⁹and, on returning from the tomb, they told all this to the Eleven and to all the rest.

¹⁰There were Mary of Magdala, and Joanna, and Mary, the mother of James. The other women, too, spoke about this to the apostles.

¹¹What they said seemed to the apostles mere nonsense, and they did not believe them.

¹³It happened that very day that two of the disciples were going to a village called Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem,

¹⁴talking together, as they went, about all that had just taken place.

¹⁵While they were talking about these things and discussing them, Jesus himself came up and went on their way with them;

¹⁶but their eyes were blinded so that they could not recognise him.

¹⁷“What is this that you are saying to each other as you walk along?” Jesus asked. They stopped, with sad looks on their faces,

¹⁸and then one of them, whose name was Cleopas, said to Jesus, “Are you staying by yourself at Jerusalem, that you have not heard of the things that have happened there within the last few days?”

¹⁹“What things do you mean?” asked Jesus. “Why, about Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered, “who, in the eyes of God and all the people, was a prophet, whose power was felt in both his words and actions;