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St Luke 24:6-19 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

6. He is not here, but is risen. Remember how he spoke unto you, when he was in Galilee,

7. Saying: The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.

8. And they remembered his words.

9. And going back from the sepulchre, they told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.

10. And it was Mary Magdalen, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the other women that were with them, who told these things to the apostles.

11. And these words seemed to them as idle tales; and they did not believe them.

12. But Peter rising up, ran to the sepulchre, and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths laid by themselves; and went away wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.

13. And behold, two of them went, the same day, to a town which was sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, named Emmaus.

14. And they talked together of all these things which had happened.

15. And it came to pass, that while they talked and reasoned with themselves, Jesus himself also drawing near, went with them.

16. But their eyes were held, that they should not know him.

17. And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one with another as you walk, and are sad?

18. And the one of them, whose name was Cleophas, answering, said to him: Art thou only a stranger to Jerusalem, and hast not known the things that have been done there in these days?

19. To whom he said: What things? And they said: Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in work and word before God and all the people;

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