The Life of Jesus

but they held him back, saying, “Stay with us, for it’s almost evening, and it’s getting dark.” So he went in to stay with them.

As he was reclining with them at the table, he took the matzah, made the b’rakhah, broke it and handed it to them.

Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. But he became invisible to them.

They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn inside us as he spoke to us on the road, opening up the Tanakh to us?”

They got up at once, returned to Yerushalayim and found the Eleven gathered together with their friends,

saying, “It’s true! The Lord has risen! Shim‘on saw him!”

Then the two told what had happened on the road and how he had become known to them in the breaking of the matzah.

They were still talking about it when — there he was, standing among them!

Startled and terrified, they thought they were seeing a ghost.

But he said to them, “Why are you so upset? Why are these doubts welling up inside you?

Look at my hands and my feet — it is I, myself! Touch me and see — a ghost doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you can see I do.”

As he said this, he showed them his hands and feet.

While they were still unable to believe it for joy and stood there dumbfounded, he said to them, “Have you something here to eat?”

They gave him a piece of broiled fish,

which he took and ate in their presence.

Yeshua said to them, “This is what I meant when I was still with you and told you that everything written about me in the Torah of Moshe, the Prophets and the Psalms had to be fulfilled.”

Then he opened their minds, so that they could understand the Tanakh,

telling them, “Here is what it says: the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day;

and in his name repentance leading to forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to people from all nations, starting with Yerushalayim.

You are witnesses of these things.

Now I am sending forth upon you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been equipped with power from above.”

He led them out toward Beit-Anyah; then, raising his hands, he said a b’rakhah over them;

and as he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.

They bowed in worship to him, then returned to Yerushalayim, overflowing with joy.

And they spent all their time in the Temple courts, praising God.