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Gospel Reading - The Road to Emmaus

²⁵Then Jesus said to them, “You are such foolish, foolish people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the Scriptures! ²⁶Wasn’t it clearly predicted by the prophets that the Messiah would have to suffer all these things before entering his time of glory?”

²⁷Then Jesus quoted them passage after passage from the writings of the prophets, beginning with the book of Genesis and going right on through the Scriptures, explaining what the passages meant and what they said about himself.

²⁸By this time they were nearing Emmaus and the end of their journey. Jesus would have gone on, ²⁹but they begged him to stay the night with them, as it was getting late. So he went home with them. ³⁰As they sat down to eat, he asked God’s blessing on the food and then took a small loaf of bread and broke it and was passing it over to them, ³¹when suddenly — it was as though their eyes were opened — they recognized him! And at that moment he disappeared!