The Life of Jesus

and they constrained him, saying, `Remain with us, for it is toward evening,' and the day did decline, and he went in to remain with them.

And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken, he was giving to them,

and their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became unseen by them.

And they said one to another, `Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?'

And they, having risen up the same hour, turned back to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven, and those with them,

saying--`The Lord was raised indeed, and was seen by Simon;'

and they were telling the things in the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread,

and as they are speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith to them, `Peace--to you;'

and being amazed, and becoming affrighted, they were thinking themselves to see a spirit.

And he said to them, `Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do reasonings come up in your hearts?

see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.'

And having said this, he shewed to them the hands and the feet,

and while they are not believing from the joy, and wondering, he said to them, `Have ye anything here to eat?'

and they gave to him part of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb,

and having taken, he did eat before them,

and he said to them, `These are the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,

and he said to them--`Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day,

and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

and ye--ye are witnesses of these things.

`And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon you, but ye--abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.'

And he led them forth without--unto Bethany, and having lifted up his hands he did bless them,

and it came to pass, in his blessing them, he was parted from them, and was borne up to the heaven;

and they, having bowed before him, did turn back to Jerusalem with great joy,

and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.