1 And on the first [day] of the weeks, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, carrying the spices they made ready, and certain [others] with them, 2 and they found the stone having been rolled away from the tomb, 3 and having gone in, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 And it came to pass, while they are perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in clothing—flashing [with light]; 5 and on their having become afraid, and having inclined the face to the earth, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living with the dead? 6 He is not here, but was raised; remember how He spoke to you, being yet in Galilee, 7 saying, It is necessary for the Son of Man to be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and to rise again [on] the third day.” 8 And they remembered His sayings, 9 and having turned back from the tomb, told all these things to the Eleven, and to all the rest. 10 And it was Mary the Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the other women with them, who told these things to the apostles, 11 and their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they were not believing them. 12 And Peter having risen, ran to the tomb, and having stooped down he sees the linen clothes lying alone, and he went away to his own home, wondering at that having come to pass. 13 And behold, two of them were going on during that day to a village, being sixty stadia distant from Jerusalem, the name of which [is] Emmaus, 14 and they were conversing with one another about all these things that have happened. 15 And it came to pass in their conversing and reasoning together, that Jesus Himself, having come near, was going on with them, 16 and their eyes were restrained so as not to know Him, 17 and He said to them, “What [are] these words that you exchange with one another, walking, and you are sad?” 18 And one, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said to Him, “Are You alone visiting Jerusalem and have not known the things having come to pass in it in these days?” 19 And He said to them, “What things?” And they said to Him, “The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man—a prophet—powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people, 20 how also the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him up to a judgment of death, and crucified Him; 21 and we were hoping that it is He who is about to redeem Israel, and also with all these things, this third day is passing today since these things happened. 22 And certain of our women also astonished us, coming early to the tomb, 23 and having not found His body, they came, saying to have also seen an apparition of messengers who say He is alive, 24 and certain of those with us went away to the tomb, and found [it] so, even as the women said, and they did not see Him.” 25 And He said to them, “O inconsiderate and slow in heart to believe on all that the prophets spoke! 26 Was it not necessary [for] the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into His glory?” 27 And having begun from Moses, and from all the Prophets, He was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about Himself. 28 And they came near to the village to where they were going, and He made an appearance of going on further, 29 and they constrained Him, saying, “Remain with us, for it is toward evening,” and the day declined, and He went in to remain with them. 30 And it came to pass, in His reclining with them, having taken the bread, He blessed, and having broken, He was giving to them, 31 and their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him, and He became unseen by them. 32 And they said to one another, “Was our heart not burning within us as He was speaking to us in the way, and as He was opening the Writings up to us?” 33 And they, having risen up the same hour, turned back to Jerusalem, and found the Eleven gathered together, and those with them, 34 saying, “The Lord was indeed raised, and was seen by Simon”; 35 and they were expounding the things in the way, and how He was made known to them in the breaking of the bread, 36 and as they are speaking these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and says to them, “Peace to you”; 37 and being amazed, and becoming frightened, they were thinking themselves to see a spirit. 38 And He said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do reasonings come up in your hearts? 39 See My hands and My feet, that I am He; handle Me and see, because a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see Me having.” 40 And having said this, He showed the hands and the feet to them, 41 and while they are not believing from the joy, and wondering, He said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 And they gave to Him part of a broiled fish, and of a honeycomb, 43 and having taken, He ate before them, 44 and He said to them, “These [are] the words that I spoke to you, being yet with you, that it is necessary to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about Me.” 45 Then He opened up their understanding to understand the Writings, 46 and He said to them, “Thus it has been written, and thus it was necessary [for] the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead [on] the third day, 47 and conversion and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in His Name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem: 48 and you are witnesses of these things. 49 And behold, I send the promise of My Father on you, but you—abide in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.” 50 And He led them forth outside—to Bethany, and having lifted up His hands He blessed them, 51 and it came to pass, in His blessing them, He was parted from them, and was carried up into Heaven; 52 and they, having worshiped Him, turned back to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
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Luke 24 Literal Standard Version
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People & places in this chapter
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People
Cleopas
One of two disciples walking to Emmaus on the day of the resurrection, who told the unrecognized Jesus of the events in Jerusalem.
Cited in the guide: Luke 24:18
Joanna
Wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, among the women healed who ministered to Jesus out of their means, and one who told the apostles of the empty tomb.
Cited in the guide: Luke 8:3; Luke 24:10
Places
Bethany
Bethany was Jesus' lodging near Jerusalem during Passion week and the home of Lazarus. Luke sets the Ascension close by.
Cited in the guide: John 11:1; John 12:1; Luke 24:50
Emmaus
Emmaus's location is disputed — Emmaus Nicopolis, Abu Ghosh, el-Qubeibeh, and Motza are all proposed (approximate location). It is remembered for the risen Christ's road encounter.
Cited in the guide: Luke 24:13; Luke 24:30-31
Cross references (50)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 John 20:1–2; Matthew 28:1–8; Mark 16:1–8; Luke 24:10; Luke 23:55–56
- 2 Matthew 27:60–66; Mark 16:3–4; John 20:1–2; Mark 15:46–47; Matthew 28:2
- 3 Luke 24:23; John 20:6–7
- 4 John 20:11–12; Mark 16:5; Acts 1:10; Matthew 28:2–6; Genesis 18:2
- 5 Mark 16:5–6; Revelation 1:18; Matthew 28:3–5; Revelation 2:8; Luke 1:12–13
- 6 Matthew 17:22–23; Luke 9:22; Mark 8:31; Matthew 28:6; Matthew 27:63
- 7 Matthew 16:21
- 8 John 14:26; John 12:16; John 2:19–22
- 9 Matthew 28:7–8; Mark 16:7–8; Luke 24:22–24; Mark 16:10
- 10 Mark 15:40–41; Luke 8:2–3; Matthew 27:56; John 20:11–18; Mark 16:9–11
- 11 Job 9:16; Mark 16:11; Psalm 126:1; Genesis 19:14; 2 Kings 7:2
- 12 John 20:3–10
- 13 Luke 24:18; Mark 16:12–13
- 14 Luke 6:45; Deuteronomy 6:7
- 15 Matthew 18:20; Luke 24:36; John 14:18–19
- 16 John 20:14; John 21:4; Luke 24:31; Mark 16:12; 2 Kings 6:18–20
- 17 John 16:6; John 16:20–22; Ezekiel 9:4–6
- 18 John 19:25
- 19 Matthew 21:11; Luke 7:16; John 6:14; John 4:19; John 3:2
- 20 Matthew 27:20; Acts 3:13–15; Luke 23:13; Acts 4:8–10; Acts 13:27–29
- 21 Luke 1:68; Isaiah 59:20; Luke 2:38; 1 Peter 1:18–19; Psalm 130:8
- 22 Mark 16:9–10; Matthew 28:7–8; John 20:1–2; John 20:18; Luke 24:1–11
- 24 Luke 24:12; John 20:1–10
- 25 Mark 9:19; Mark 7:18; Hebrews 5:11–12; Mark 16:14; Mark 8:17–18
- 26 1 Peter 1:11; Zechariah 13:7; Isaiah 53:1–12; Acts 17:3; Hebrews 2:8–10
- 27 Isaiah 7:14; Luke 24:44; Deuteronomy 18:15; Isaiah 53:1–12; Jeremiah 33:14–15
- 28 Mark 6:48; Genesis 19:2; Genesis 42:7; Genesis 32:26
- 29 2 Kings 4:8; Genesis 19:3; Luke 14:23; Acts 16:14
- 30 Matthew 14:19; Luke 24:35; Matthew 15:36; Luke 9:16; Acts 27:35
- 31 Luke 24:16; John 8:59; Luke 4:30; John 20:13–16
- 32 Luke 24:45; Jeremiah 23:29; Hebrews 4:12; Psalm 39:3; Jeremiah 15:16
- 33 John 20:19–26; Mark 16:13; Acts 1:14
- 34 1 Corinthians 15:5; Mark 16:7; Luke 22:54–62
- 35 Mark 16:12–13; Acts 2:42; Luke 24:30–31
- 36 2 Thessalonians 3:16; Isaiah 57:18; Luke 10:5; John 20:19–23; Mark 16:14
- 37 Matthew 14:26–27; Mark 6:49–50; Job 4:14–16; 1 Samuel 28:13; Acts 12:15
- 38 Jeremiah 4:14; Hebrews 4:13; Daniel 4:19; Daniel 4:5; Matthew 16:8
- 39 John 20:27; 1 John 1:1; Ecclesiastes 12:7; John 20:20; 1 Thessalonians 5:23
- 41 John 21:5; Psalm 126:1–2; John 21:10–13; Job 9:16; John 16:22
- 43 Acts 10:41
- 44 Zechariah 12:10; Luke 24:26–27; Zechariah 9:9; Psalm 110:1–7; Acts 13:33
- 45 Acts 16:14; 1 John 5:20; Psalm 119:18; 2 Corinthians 3:14–18; Acts 26:18
- 46 Isaiah 53:2–12; Isaiah 50:6; Luke 24:44; Luke 24:26–27; Luke 24:7
- 47 Acts 5:31; Isaiah 49:6; Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:38; Acts 20:21
- 48 Acts 13:31; Acts 2:32; Acts 1:8; Acts 5:32; Acts 10:41
- 49 Acts 1:8; Acts 1:4; Joel 2:28–32; John 14:26; Isaiah 32:15
- 50 Acts 1:12; Mark 11:1; Genesis 49:28; Matthew 21:17; Numbers 6:23–27
- 51 Acts 1:9; Mark 16:19; John 20:17; 2 Kings 2:11; Hebrews 1:3
- 52 Matthew 28:9; Psalm 30:11; 1 Peter 1:8; John 16:22; John 20:28
- 53 Mark 16:20; Acts 5:41–42; Matthew 28:20; Acts 2:46–47; Revelation 22:21
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The Lord appeared to His disciples after His resurrection, as ye have heard, and saluted them, saying, "Peace be unto you." This is peace indeed, and the salutation of salvation: for the very word salutation has received its name from salvation. And what can be better than that Salvation Itself should salute man? For Christ is our Salvation.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
… was that the Lord discoursed with the disciples after His resurrection from the dead, proving to them from the Scriptures themselves "that Christ must suffer, and enter into His glory, and that remission of sins should be preached in His name throughout all the world." And the disciple will be perfected, and [rendered] like the householder, "who bringeth forth from …
O ye sons of men, how long so slow of heart? Even now, after the Life is descended to you, will ye not ascend and live?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
let the heretics be silenced who speak against His humanity, for they speak against Him, who saith, Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
His running to the fig-tree, His shrinking, that is, His drawing back, His praying, and His making as though He would have gone further For neither as God nor as man was He in need of these or similar things, but only because His form was that of a man as necessity and expediency demanded.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)