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Luke 24:32-45 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

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.

36. While Jesus' disciples were talking about what had happened, Jesus appeared and greeted them.

37. They were frightened and terrified because they thought they were seeing a ghost.

38. But Jesus said, “Why are you so frightened? Why do you doubt?

39. Look at my hands and my feet and see who I am! Touch me and find out for yourselves. Ghosts don't have flesh and bones as you see I have.”

40. After Jesus said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

41. The disciples were so glad and amazed that they could not believe it. Jesus then asked them, “Do you have something to eat?”

42. They gave him a piece of baked fish.

43. He took it and ate it as they watched.

44. Jesus said to them, “While I was still with you, I told you that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Books of the Prophets, and in the Psalms had to happen.”

45. Then he helped them understand the Scriptures.

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