29. And they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening, and by this time the day is far spent.” And he went in to stay with them.
30. And it happened that when he reclined at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks, and after breaking it, he gave it to them.
31. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became invisible to them.
32. And they said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?”
33. And they got up that same hour and returned to Jerusalem and found the eleven and those with them assembled,
34. saying, “The Lord has really been raised, and has appeared to Simon!”
35. And they began describing what happened on the road, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.
36. And while they were saying these things, he himself stood there among them.
37. But they were startled and became terrified, and thought they had seen a ghost.
38. And he said to them, “Why are you frightened? And for what reason do doubts arise in your hearts?
39. Look at my hands and my feet, that I am I myself! Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”
40. And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
41. And while they were still disbelieving because of joy and were marveling, he said to them, “Do you have anything to eat here?”
42. So they gave him a piece of broiled fish,
43. and he took it and ate it in front of them.
44. And he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything that is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.”
45. Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,
46. and said to them, “Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,