Revised Version 1885

Luke 24:27-45 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

27. And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

28. And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they were going: and he made as though he would go further.

29. And they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spent. And he went in to abide with them.

30. And it came to pass, when he had sat down with them to meat, he took the bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.

31. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.

32. And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?

33. And they rose up that very hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,

34. saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.

35. And they rehearsed the things that happened in the way, and how he was known of them in the breaking of the bread.

36. And as they spake these things, he himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

37. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they beheld a spirit.

38. And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do reasonings arise in your heart?

39. See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye behold me having.

40. And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and his feet.

41. And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here anything to eat?

42. And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish.

43. And he took it, and did eat before them.

44. And he said unto them, These are my words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, how that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me.

45. Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;