7. ‘The Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, be crucified, and three days later rise to life.’ ”
8. Then the women remembered his words,
9. returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven disciples and all the rest.
10. The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; they and the other women with them told these things to the apostles.
11. But the apostles thought that what the women said was nonsense, and they did not believe them.
12. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; he bent down and saw the linen wrappings but nothing else. Then he went back home amazed at what had happened.
13. On that same day two of Jesus' followers were going to a village named Emmaus, about eleven kilometres from Jerusalem,
14. and they were talking to each other about all the things that had happened.
15. As they talked and discussed, Jesus himself drew near and walked along with them;
16. they saw him, but somehow did not recognize him.
17. Jesus said to them, “What are you talking about to each other, as you walk along?”They stood still, with sad faces.
18. One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only visitor in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things that have been happening there these last few days?”
19. “What things?” he asked.“The things that happened to Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet and was considered by God and by all the people to be powerful in everything he said and did.
20. Our chief priests and rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and he was crucified.
21. And we had hoped that he would be the one who was going to set Israel free! Besides all that, this is now the third day since it happened.
22. Some of the women of our group surprised us; they went at dawn to the tomb,
23. but could not find his body. They came back saying they had seen a vision of angels who told them that he is alive.