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that he was the one to save Israel. It is now the third day since these
things happened. Yet some of our women who were at the tomb early this
morning, amazed us. They told us that they had not found his body but
that they had seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive. Then
some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it as the
women had said. But him they did not see."

Then Jesus said to them, "O foolish men, so slow of heart to believe in
what the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for the Christ to
suffer and so win his glory?"

When they came to the village to which they were going, he seemed to be
going farther on, but they urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is
almost evening, the day is nearly over." So he went in to stay with
them.

As he sat with them at table, he took the bread, blessed it, broke it,
and passed it to them. Then their eyes were opened so that they knew
him; but he disappeared from their sight. They said to one another, "Did
not our hearts glow while he was talking with us on the way!"

At once they started back to Jerusalem, where they found the eleven
disciples gathered with their companions, and from them they learned
that the Lord had really risen and that he had appeared to Simon. Then
they told of their own experience on the road, and how they knew him
when he broke the bread.

JESUS GIVES HIS LAST COMMANDS TO HIS HELPERS

While the two disciples were speaking, Jesus himself stood among them.
And they were frightened and believed that they saw a ghost; but he said
to them, "Why are you so frightened? Why do you doubt? See my hands and
my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, for a ghost has not
flesh and bones as you see that I have." While they were still unable
for very joy and wonder to believe, he said to them, "Have you anything
to eat here?" And when they gave him a piece of broiled fish, he ate
before them.

Then he said to them, "This is what I told you when I was still with
you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the
prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled." Then he helped them to
understand the scriptures, and said, "It is written that the Christ must
suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that in his name all
nations must be called upon to turn from their sins and gain God's
forgiveness. You yourselves, beginning at Jerusalem, are to tell men
about these things."

Now Thomas, one of th