Amplified Bible

Luke 24:5-19 Amplified Bible (AMP)

5. And as [the women] were frightened and were bowing their faces to the ground, the men said to them, Why do you look for the living among [those who are] dead?

6. He is not here, but has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee

7. That the Son of Man must be given over into the hands of sinful men (men whose way or nature is to act in opposition to God) and be crucified and on the third day rise [from death]. [Ps. 16:10.]

8. And they remembered His words.

9. And having returned from the tomb, they reported all these things [taken together] to the eleven apostles and to all the rest.

10. Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them, who reported these things to the apostles.

11. But these reports seemed to the men an idle tale (madness, feigned things, nonsense), and they did not believe the women.

12. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; and stooping down and looking in, he saw the linen cloths alone by themselves, and he went away, wondering about and marveling at what had happened.

13. And behold, that very day two of [the disciples] were going to a village called Emmaus, [which is] about seven miles from Jerusalem.

14. And they were talking with each other about all these things that had occurred.

15. And while they were conversing and discussing together, Jesus Himself caught up with them and was already accompanying them.

16. But their eyes were held, so that they did not recognize Him.

17. And He said to them, What is this discussion that you are exchanging (throwing back and forth) between yourselves as you walk along? And they stood still, looking sad and downcast.

18. Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered Him, Do you alone dwell as a stranger in Jerusalem and not know the things that have occurred there in these days?

19. And He said to them, What [kind of] things? And they said to Him, About Jesus of Nazareth, Who was a Prophet mighty in work and word before God and all the people–