Luke 24:13-35

(Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?)

That very day, the first day of the week,
     two of the disciples of Jesus were going
     to a village called Emmaus, seven miles from Jerusalem,
     and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred.
And it happened that while they were conversing and debating,
     Jesus himself drew near and walked with them,
     but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.
[He asked them,
     "What are you discussing as you walk along?"
They stopped, looking downcast.
One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply,
     "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem
     who does not know of the things
     that have taken place there in these days?"
And he replied to them, "What sort of things?"
They said to him,
     "The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene,
     who was a prophet mighty in deed and word
     before God and all the people,
     how our chief priests and rulers both handed him over
     to a sentence of death and crucified him.
But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel;
     and besides all this,
     it is now the third day since this took place.
Some women from our group, however, have astounded us:
     they were at the tomb early in the morning
     and did not find his Body;
     they came back and reported
     that they had indeed seen a vision of angels
     who announced that he was alive.
Then some of those with us went to the tomb
     and found things just as the women had described,
     but him they did not see."
And he said to them, "Oh, how foolish you are!
How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke!
Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things
     and enter into his glory?"
Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets,
     Jesus interpreted to them what referred to him
     in all the Scriptures.]
As they approached the village to which they were going,
     Jesus gave the impression that he was going on farther.
But they urged him, "Stay with us,
     for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over."
So he went in to stay with them.
And it happened that, while he was with them at table,
     he took bread, said the blessing,
     broke it, and gave it to them.
With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him,
     but he vanished from their sight.
Then they said to each other,
     "Were not our hearts burning within us
     while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?"
So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem
     where they found gathered together
     the Eleven and those with them, who were saying,
     "The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!"
Then the two recounted
     what had taken place on the way
     and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.