Study Desk

As Jesus was being led away, some soldiers grabbed hold of a man from Cyrene named Simon. He was coming in from the fields, but they put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.

A crowd had gathered to see the terrible sight. Then after they had seen it, they felt brokenhearted and went home.

There was a man named Joseph, who was from Arimathea in Judea. Joseph was a good and honest man, and he was eager for God's kingdom to come. He was also a member of the council, but he did not agree with what they had decided.

and they did not know what to think. Suddenly two men in shining white clothes stood beside them.

Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and some other women were the ones who had gone to the tomb. When they returned, they told the eleven apostles and the others what had happened.

The apostles thought it was all nonsense, and they would not believe.

As they were talking and thinking about what had happened,

"What do you mean?" Jesus asked. They answered: Those things that happened to Jesus from Nazareth. By what he did and said he showed that he was a powerful prophet, who pleased God and all the people.

Some men from our group went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said. But they didn't see Jesus either.

They begged him, "Stay with us! It's already late, and the sun is going down." So Jesus went into the house to stay with them.

They said to each other, "When he talked with us along the road and explained the Scriptures to us, didn't it warm our hearts?"

So they got right up and returned to Jerusalem. The two disciples found the eleven apostles and the others gathered together.

And they learned from the group that the Lord was really alive and had appeared to Peter.

Then the disciples from Emmaus told what happened on the road and how they knew he was the Lord when he broke the bread.

They were frightened and terrified because they thought they were seeing a ghost.

The disciples were so glad and amazed that they could not believe it. Jesus then asked them, "Do you have something to eat?"

He took it and ate it as they watched.

After his disciples had worshiped him, they returned to Jerusalem and were very happy.

Then when they asked him if he were Elijah, he said, "No, I am not!" And when they asked if he were the Prophet, he also said "No!"

John's two followers heard him, and they went with Jesus.