[DailyReading] On the road to Emmaus

[Daily Bible Readings]

Lesson: Life in a Word
Reading: On the road to Emmaus  2012-04-05
Reference: Luke 24:13-27 

Lk 24:13: And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
Lk 24:14: And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
Lk 24:15: And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
Lk 24:16: But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
Lk 24:17: And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
Lk 24:18: And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
Lk 24:19: And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
Lk 24:20: And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
Lk 24:21: But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
Lk 24:22: Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;
Lk 24:23: And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
Lk 24:24: And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
Lk 24:25: Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
Lk 24:26: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
Lk 24:27: And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
(KJV)