Luke 24

1But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.Cross-references: Matt 27:55 · Matt 28:1 · Mark 15:40 · Mark 16:1 · Luke 8:2 · Luke 23:55 · +2 more

2They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.Cross-references: Matt 27:60 · Matt 28:2 · Mark 15:46 · Mark 16:3 · John 20:1

3They entered in, and didn’t find the Lord Jesus’ body.Cross-references: Matt 16:5 · Luke 24:23 · John 20:6

4While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.Cross-references: Gen 18:2 · Matt 28:2 · Mark 16:5 · John 20:11 · Acts 1:10

5Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. The men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?Cross-references: Dan 8:17 · Dan 10:7 · Dan 10:16 · Dan 10:19 · Matt 28:3 · Mark 16:5 · +6 more

6He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,Cross-references: Matt 12:40 · Matt 16:21 · Matt 17:22 · Matt 20:18 · Matt 27:63 · Matt 28:6 · +8 more

7saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?”Cross-references: Matt 16:21

8They remembered his words,Cross-references: John 2:19 · John 12:16 · John 14:26

9returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.Cross-references: Matt 28:7 · Mark 16:7 · Mark 16:10 · Luke 24:22

10Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles.Cross-references: Matt 27:56 · Mark 6:30 · Mark 15:40 · Mark 16:9 · Luke 8:2 · John 20:11

11These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.Cross-references: Gen 19:14 · 2Ki 7:2 · Job 9:16 · Ps 126:1 · Mark 16:11 · Luke 24:25 · +1 more

12But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.Cross-references: John 20:3

13Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.Cross-references: Mark 16:12 · Luke 24:18

14They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened.Cross-references: Deut 6:7 · Mal 3:6 · Luke 6:45

15While they talked and questioned together, Jesus himself came near, and went with them.Cross-references: Matt 18:20 · Luke 24:36 · John 14:18

16But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.Cross-references: 2Ki 6:18 · Mark 16:12 · Luke 24:31 · John 20:14 · John 21:4

17He said to them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?”Cross-references: Ezek 9:4 · John 16:6 · John 16:20

18One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?”Cross-references: John 19:25

19He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;Cross-references: Matt 21:11 · Mark 1:24 · Luke 7:16 · John 3:2 · John 4:19 · John 6:14 · +5 more

20and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.Cross-references: Matt 27:1 · Matt 27:20 · Mark 15:1 · Luke 22:66 · Luke 23:13 · Acts 3:13 · +4 more

21But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.Cross-references: Ps 130:8 · Isa 59:20 · Luke 1:68 · Luke 2:38 · Acts 1:6 · 1Pet 1:18 · +1 more

22Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb;Cross-references: Matt 28:7 · Mark 16:9 · Luke 24:1 · John 20:1 · John 20:18

23and when they didn’t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

24Some of us went to the tomb and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him.”Cross-references: Luke 24:12 · John 20:1

25He said to them, “Foolish people, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!Cross-references: Mark 7:18 · Mark 8:17 · Mark 9:19 · Mark 16:14 · Heb 5:11

26Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”Cross-references: Ps 22:1 · Ps 69:1 · Isa 53:1 · Zech 13:7 · Luke 24:7 · Luke 24:44 · +8 more

27Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Gen 12:3 · Gen 22:18 · Gen 26:4 · Gen 49:10 · Num 21:6 · +33 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

28They came near to the village where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.Cross-references: Gen 19:2 · Gen 32:26 · Gen 42:7 · Mark 6:48

29They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.Cross-references: Gen 19:3 · 2Ki 4:8 · Luke 14:23 · Acts 16:14

30When he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave it to them.Cross-references: Matt 14:19 · Matt 15:36 · Matt 26:26 · Mark 6:41 · Mark 8:6 · Mark 14:22 · +5 more

31Their eyes were opened and they recognized him; then he vanished out of their sight.Cross-references: Luke 4:30 · Luke 24:16 · John 8:59 · John 20:13

32They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”Cross-references: Ps 39:3 · Ps 104:34 · Prov 27:9 · Prov 27:17 · Isa 50:4 · Jer 15:16 · +7 more

33They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,Cross-references: Mark 16:13 · John 20:19 · Acts 1:14

34saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”Cross-references: Mark 16:7 · Luke 22:54 · 1Cor 15:5

35They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.Cross-references: Mark 16:12 · Luke 24:30 · Acts 2:42

36As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”Cross-references: Isa 57:18 · Matt 10:13 · Mark 16:14 · Luke 10:5 · John 14:27 · John 16:33 · +5 more

37But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.Cross-references: 1Sam 28:13 · Job 4:14 · Matt 14:26 · Mark 6:49 · Luke 16:30 · Acts 12:15

38He said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?Cross-references: Jer 4:14 · Dan 4:5 · Dan 4:19 · Matt 16:8 · Heb 4:13

39See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”Cross-references: Num 16:22 · Eccl 12:7 · Luke 23:46 · John 20:20 · John 20:25 · John 20:27 · +4 moreExamined: Jehovah's Witnesses →

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

41While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”Cross-references: Gen 45:26 · Job 9:16 · Ps 126:1 · John 16:22 · John 21:5 · John 21:10

42They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.

43He took them, and ate in front of them.Cross-references: Acts 10:41

44He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.”Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Gen 14:18 · Gen 22:18 · Gen 49:10 · Lev 16:2 · Num 21:8 · +79 more

45Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.Cross-references: Ex 4:11 · Job 33:16 · Ps 119:18 · Isa 29:10 · Isa 29:18 · Luke 24:32 · +7 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

46He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,Cross-references: Ps 22:1 · Isa 50:6 · Isa 53:2 · Luke 24:7 · Luke 24:26 · Luke 24:44 · +3 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

47and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.Cross-references: Gen 12:3 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 67:2 · Ps 67:7 · Ps 86:9 · Ps 98:1 · +46 more

48You are witnesses of these things.Cross-references: John 15:27 · Acts 1:8 · Acts 1:22 · Acts 2:32 · Acts 3:15 · Acts 4:33 · +8 more

49Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”Cross-references: Isa 32:15 · Isa 44:3 · Isa 59:20 · Joel 2:28 · John 14:16 · John 14:26 · +5 more

50He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them.Cross-references: Gen 14:18 · Gen 27:4 · Gen 48:9 · Gen 49:28 · Num 6:23 · Matt 21:17 · +4 more

51While he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.Cross-references: 2Ki 2:11 · Mark 16:19 · John 20:17 · Acts 1:9 · Eph 4:8 · Heb 1:3 · +1 more

52They worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,Cross-references: Ps 30:11 · Matt 28:9 · Matt 28:17 · John 14:28 · John 16:7 · John 16:22 · +2 more

53and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.Cross-references: Matt 28:20 · Mark 16:20 · Acts 2:46 · Acts 5:41 · Rev 22:21