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Gospel Reading - Jesus appears to his disciples

³⁵Then the two from Emmaus told their story of how Jesus had appeared to them as they were walking along the road and how they had recognized him as he was breaking the bread.

³⁶And just as they were telling about it, Jesus himself was suddenly standing there among them, and greeted them. ³⁷But the whole group was terribly frightened, thinking they were seeing a ghost!

³⁸“Why are you frightened?” he asked. “Why do you doubt that it is really I? ³⁹Look at my hands! Look at my feet! You can see that it is I, myself! Touch me and make sure that I am not a ghost! For ghosts don’t have bodies, as you see that I do!” ⁴⁰As he spoke, he held out his hands for them to see the marks of the nails,^a and showed them the wounds in* his feet.

⁴¹Still they stood there undecided, filled with joy and doubt.

Then he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

⁴²They gave him a piece of broiled fish, ⁴³and he ate it as they watched!

⁴⁴Then he said, “When I was with you before, don’t you remember my telling you that everything written about me by Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms must all come true?” ⁴⁵Then he opened their minds to understand at last these many Scriptures! ⁴⁶And he said, “Yes, it was written long ago that the Messiah must suffer and die and rise again from the dead on the third day; ⁴⁷and that this message of salvation should be taken from Jerusalem to all the nations: There is forgiveness of sins for all who turn to me. ⁴⁸You have seen these prophecies come true.

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