Bible Gateway passage: Luke 24:13-35 - New International Version (2024)

On the Road to Emmaus

¹³Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles^[a] from Jerusalem.^{(A) 14}They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. ¹⁵As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them;^{(B) 16}but they were kept from recognizing him.^(C)

¹⁷He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. ¹⁸One of them, named Cleopas,^(D) asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

¹⁹“What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,”^(E) they replied. “He was a prophet,^(F) powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. ²⁰The chief priests and our rulers^(G) handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; ²¹but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel.^(H) And what is more, it is the third day^(I) since all this took place. ²²In addition, some of our women amazed us.^(J) They went to the tomb early this morning ²³but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. ²⁴Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”^(K)

²⁵He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! ²⁶Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”^{(L) 27}And beginning with Moses^(M) and all the Prophets,^(N) he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.^(O)

²⁸As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. ²⁹But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

³⁰When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it^(P) and began to give it to them. ³¹Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him,^(Q) and he disappeared from their sight. ³²They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us^(R) while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures^(S) to us?”

³³They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together ³⁴and saying, “It is true! The Lord^(T) has risen and has appeared to Simon.”^{(U) 35}Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.^(V)

Footnotes

1. Luke 24:13 Or about 11 kilometers

Cross references

1. Luke 24:13 : Mk 16:12
2. Luke 24:15 : ver 36
3. Luke 24:16 : Jn 20:14; 21:4
4. Luke 24:18 : Jn 19:25
5. Luke 24:19 : S Mk 1:24
6. Luke 24:19 : S Mt 21:11
7. Luke 24:20 : Lk 23:13
8. Luke 24:21 : Lk 1:68; 2:38; 21:28
9. Luke 24:21 : S Mt 16:21
10. Luke 24:22 : ver 1-10
11. Luke 24:24 : ver 12
12. Luke 24:26 : Heb 2:10; 1Pe 1:11
13. Luke 24:27 : Ge 3:15; Nu 21:9; Dt 18:15
14. Luke 24:27 : Isa 7:14; 9:6; 40:10, 11; 53; Eze 34:23; Da 9:24; Mic 7:20; Mal 3:1
15. Luke 24:27 : Jn 1:45
16. Luke 24:30 : S Mt 14:19
17. Luke 24:31 : ver 16
18. Luke 24:32 : Ps 39:3
19. Luke 24:32 : ver 27, 45
20. Luke 24:34 : S Lk 7:13
21. Luke 24:34 : 1Co 15:5
22. Luke 24:35 : ver 30, 31