The Emmaus Window: Lk 24.13-32

24¹³Now then, [on the day of the Resurrection] two of the disciples were going to a village around 10km from Jerusalem called Emmaus. ¹⁴And they were talking together about everything that had happened. ¹⁵And indeed as they were talking and conversing, Jesus himself happened to approach them and travel with them; ¹⁶but their eyes were kept from recognising him.

¹⁷He said to them, "What were you discussing together as you walked?" They stood sadly, ¹⁸but one, Kleopas by name, said to him in response, "You're the only one staying in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things that happened there during this time!" ¹⁹And he said to them, "What sort of things?" Then they said to him, "The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, a man powerful in deed and word in the presence of God and all the people: ²⁰how our high priests and rulers handed him over to the penalty of death and crucified him! ²¹But we hoped he was the one that would ransom Israel. Yet more than all this, it is now the third day since this happened. ²²But now some women among us, who were at the tomb early in the morning, have astounded us. ²³They came to say both that they did not find his body and that they had seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive! ²⁴Some of those who were with us went out to the tomb and they found it just exactly as the women said, but they did not see him." ²⁵And he said to them, "Oh, you are unthinking and slow in heart to put your trust in all that the prophets have said! ²⁶Was it not necessary that the Messiah suffer these things and enter into his glory?" ²⁷And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets he interpreted for them the things about him in the whole Scripture.

²⁸They also were drawing near to the village where they were going, and Jesus acted as though he was going on ahead. ²⁹And they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us since it is almost evening and the day is already nearly ended." And he went in to stay with them. ³⁰And while he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed it and he broke it and he gave it to them. ³¹Then their eyes were opened and they recognised him! And he became unseen by them. ³²And they said to one another, "Didn't our hearts burn within us when he spoke to us on the road? As he was opening up the Scriptures for us?"

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