• Jesus Has Risen

  • 1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.
  • 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
  • 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
  • 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them.
  • 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?
  • 6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:
  • 7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’”
  • 8 Then they remembered his words.
  • 9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others.
  • 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles.
  • 11 But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.
  • 12 Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.

  • On the Road to Emmaus

  • 13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
  • 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.
  • 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them;
  • 16 but they were kept from recognizing him.
  • 17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” They stood still, their faces downcast.
  • 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”
  • 19 “What things?” he asked. “About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.
  • 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him;
  • 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.
  • 22 In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning
  • 23 but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.
  • 24 Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”
  • 25 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
  • 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”
  • 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
  • 28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther.
  • 29 But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.
  • 30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.
  • 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.
  • 32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
  • 33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together
  • 34 and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.”
  • 35 Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

  • Jesus Appears to the Disciples

  • 36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
  • 37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost.
  • 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?
  • 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
  • 40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet.
  • 41 And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”
  • 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish,
  • 43 and he took it and ate it in their presence.
  • 44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”
  • 45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.
  • 46 He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
  • 47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
  • 48 You are witnesses of these things.
  • 49 I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

  • The Ascension of Jesus

  • 50 When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them.
  • 51 While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.
  • 52 Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.
  • 53 And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God.