The following posts contain the voices spoken in the scripture text of Easter. As you pray, listen carefully to these and see how much they echo your own thoughts on the Resurrection of Jesus.
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That
very day, the first day of the week, two of
Jesus’ disciples were going
to a
village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus, and they
were conversing about all the things that had occurred.
And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.
He asked
them,
“What
are you discussing as you walk along?”
They stopped, looking downcast.
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?”
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,
how our
chief priests and rulers both handed him over
to a
sentence of death and crucified him.
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.
Some
women from our group, however, have astounded us:
they
were at the tomb early in the morning
and did
not find his Body;
they
came back and reported
that
they had indeed seen a vision of angels
who
announced that he was alive.
Then
some of those with us went to the tomb
and
found things just as the women had described,
but him
they did not see.”
How slow
of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! Was it
not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and
enter into his glory?”
Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets,
he
interpreted to them what referred to him
in all
the Scriptures.
As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression that he was going on farther.
But they
urged him, “Stay with us, for it
is nearly evening and the day is almost over.”
So he
went in to stay with them.
And it happened that, while he was with them at table,
he took
bread, said the blessing, broke
it,
and gave it to them.
and gave it to them.
Then they said to each other,
“Were
not our hearts burning within us while he
spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?”
So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem
where
they found gathered together
the
Eleven and those with them who were saying,
“The
Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!”
Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread. Lk. 24:13-35
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