6. He is not here, but he has been raised. Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee,
7. that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners and be crucified, and rise on the third day.”
8. And they remembered his words.
9. Then they returned from the tomb and announced all these things to the eleven and to all the others.
10. The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; the others who accompanied them also told this to the apostles,
11. but their story seemed like nonsense and they did not believe them.
12. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb, bent down, and saw the burial cloths alone; then he went home amazed at what had happened.
13. Now that very day two of them were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus,
14. and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred.
15. And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them,
16. but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.
17. He asked them, “What are you discussing as you walk along?” They stopped, looking downcast.
18. One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know of the things that have taken place there in these days?”
19. And he replied to them, “What sort of things?” They said to him, “The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,
20. how our chief priests and rulers both handed him over to a sentence of death and crucified him.
21. But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel; and besides all this, it is now the third day since this took place.
22. Some women from our group, however, have astounded us: they were at the tomb early in the morning