Lexham English Bible

Luke 24:5-22 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

5. And as they were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them, “Why are you looking for the living among the dead?

6. He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he spoke to you while he was still in Galilee,

7. saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of men who are sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise?”

8. And they remembered his words,

9. and when they returned from the tomb, they reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

10. Now Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the others with them were telling these things to the apostles.

11. And these words appeared to them as nonsense, and they refused to believe them.

12. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb, and bending over to look, he saw only the strips of linen cloth, and he went away to his home wondering what had happened.

13. And behold, on that same day, two of them were traveling to a village named Emmaus that was sixty stadia distant from Jerusalem,

14. and they were conversing with one another about all these things that had happened.

15. And it happened that while they were conversing, and discussing, Jesus himself also approached and began to go along with them,

16. but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.

17. And he said to them, “What are these matters that you are discussing with one another as you are walking along?” And they stood still, looking sad.

18. And one of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to him, “Are you the only one living near Jerusalem and not knowing the things that have happened in it in these days?”

19. And he said to them, “What things?” So they said to him, “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, a man who was a prophet, powerful in deed and word before God and all the people,

20. and how our chief priests and rulers handed him over to a sentence of death, and crucified him.

21. But we were hoping that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. But in addition to all these things, this is the third day since these things took place.

22. But also some women from among us astonished us, who were at the tomb early in the morning,