The Life of Jesus

They were standing there, not knowing what to think about it, when suddenly two men in dazzlingly bright clothing stood next to them.

Terror-stricken, they bowed down with their faces to the ground. The two men said to them, “Why are you looking for the living among the dead?

He is not here; he has been raised. Remember how he told you while he was still in the Galil,

‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be executed on a stake as a criminal, but on the third day be raised again’?”

Then they remembered his words;

and, returning from the tomb, they told everything to the Eleven and to all the rest.

The women who told the emissaries these things were Miryam of Magdala, Yochanah, Miryam the mother of Ya‘akov, and the others in their circle.

But the emissaries didn’t believe them; in fact, they thought that what they said was utter nonsense!

However, Kefa got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping down, he saw only the burial cloths and went home wondering what had happened.

That same day, two of them were going toward a village about seven miles from Yerushalayim called Amma’us,

and they were talking with each other about all the things that had happened.

As they talked and discussed, Yeshua himself came up and walked along with them,

but something kept them from recognizing him.

He asked them, “What are you talking about with each other as you walk along?” They stopped short, their faces downcast;

and one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only person staying in Yerushalayim that doesn’t know the things that have been going on there the last few days?”

“What things?” he asked them. They said to him, “The things about Yeshua from Natzeret. He was a prophet and proved it by the things he did and said before God and all the people.

Our head cohanim and our leaders handed him over, so that he could be sentenced to death and executed on a stake as a criminal.

And we had hoped that he would be the one to liberate Isra’el! Besides all that, today is the third day since these things happened;

and this morning, some of the women astounded us. They were at the tomb early

and couldn’t find his body, so they came back; but they also reported that they had seen a vision of angels who say he’s alive!

Some of our friends went to the tomb and found it exactly as the women had said, but they didn’t see him.”

He said to them, “Foolish people! So unwilling to put your trust in everything the prophets spoke!

Didn’t the Messiah have to die like this before entering his glory?”

Then, starting with Moshe and all the prophets, he explained to them the things that can be found throughout the Tanakh concerning himself.

They approached the village where they were going. He made as if he were going on farther;