Jesus rises from the dead
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📚Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices that they had prepared. And some other women were with them. 2 📚And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 📚And they went in, but did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 📚✭And as they were greatly perplexed about this, it happened that suddenly two men in shining clothing stood near them. 5 📚And as they were afraid and bowed their faces toward the ground, the men said to them, “Why are you looking for the living among the dead? 6 📚He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he spoke to you while he was still in Galilee, 7 saying, ‘The Son of man must be given into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again✭.’ ”
The unbelief of Jesus’ disciples
8 📚And they remembered his words, 9 📚and returned from the tomb and told all these things to the Eleven, and to all the rest. 10 📚It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women who were with them, who told these things to the apostles. 11 📚And their words seemed to them like idle talk, and they did not believe them.
12 📚✭Then Peter got up and ran to the tomb, and, stooping down, he saw the linen clothes placed by themselves, and left, wondering to himself at what had happened.
Jesus appears to disciples on the Emmaeus road
13 📚✭Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, which was about twelve kilometers from Jerusalem. 14 📚And they were talking together about everything that had taken place. 15 📚And it happened that as they talked and discussed this, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. 16 📚✭But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
17 📚✭And he said to them, “What kind of discussion is this you are having as you sadly walk along?”
18 📚And one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said to him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem? And don’t you know the things that have been happening there in these days?”
19 📚✭And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word in the presence of God and all the people, 20 📚And how the chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be condemned to death, and crucified him. 21 📚✭But we hoped that he was the one who would redeem Israel. And besides all this, today is the third day since these things were done. 22 📚Yes, and also some women of our group astonished us. Early they were at the tomb, 23 and when they did not find his body, they came, saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. 24 📚✭And some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said. But they did not see him”.
25 📚✭Then he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. 26 📚Was not the Christ bound to suffer these things, and to enter his glory?”
27 📚✭And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he explained to them the things concerning himself in all the Scriptures. 28 📚✭And they drew near to the village where they were going, and he made as if he was going further. 29 📚But they pressed him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening, and the day is far spent”. And he went in to stay with them.
30 📚And when he had sat down at the table with them, it came about that he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. 31 📚✭And their eyes were opened and they knew him; and he vanished from their sight.
32 📚✭And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”
Jesus appears to His apostles
33 📚✭And they got up the same hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the Eleven and those who were with them gathered together, 34 📚✭saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon”.
35 📚And they told what had occurred on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread. 36 📚✭And as they said this, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you”.
37 📚✭But they were startled and frightened, thinking that they were seeing a spirit.
38 📚And he said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? 39 📚✭See 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 have”.
40 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41 📚✭And while they still did not believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have here any food?”
42 And they gave him a piece of broiled fish, and a piece of honeycomb. 43 📚And he took them, and ate in front of them.
44 📚✭And he said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you: that all things concerning me which were written in the law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled”.
Jesus explains the Scriptures to His apostles and tells them what to do
45 📚✭Then he opened their understanding, so that they could understand the Scriptures, 46 📚and said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day; 47 📚also that repentance✭ and forgiveness✭ of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 📚✭And you are witnesses of these things.
49 📚✭“And, look, I am going to send the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high”.
Jesus ascends into heaven
50 📚✭And he led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them✭. 51 📚And while he was blessing them it came about that he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven.