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Luke 24:26-35 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

26. Didn't you know that the Messiah would have to suffer before he was given his glory?”

27. Jesus then explained everything written about himself in the Scriptures, beginning with the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets.

28. When the two of them came near the village where they were going, Jesus seemed to be going further.

29. They begged him, “Stay with us! It's already late, and the sun is going down.” So Jesus went into the house to stay with them.

30. After Jesus sat down to eat, he took some bread. He blessed it and broke it. Then he gave it to them.

31. At once they knew who he was, but he disappeared.

32. They said to each other, “When he talked with us along the road and explained the Scriptures to us, didn't it warm our hearts?”

33. So they got up at once and returned to Jerusalem.The two disciples found the eleven apostles and the others gathered together.

34. And they learnt from the group that the Lord was really alive and had appeared to Peter.

35. Then the disciples from Emmaus told what happened on the road and how they knew he was the Lord when he broke the bread.

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