Study Desk

As they led him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, and they laid the cross on him, and made him carry it behind Jesus.

For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us'; and to the hills, ‘Cover us.'

When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

[[Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing."]] And they cast lots to divide his clothing.

And when all the crowds who had gathered there for this spectacle saw what had taken place, they returned home, beating their breasts.

The women who had come with him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid.

Then they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

and returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest.

But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.

While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them,

And he said to them, "What are you discussing with each other while you walk along?" They stood still, looking sad.

He asked them, "What things?" They replied, "The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,

and when they did not find his body there, they came back and told us that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive.

Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but they did not see him."

But they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over." So he went in to stay with them.

Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight.

That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together.

They were saying, "The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon!"

Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread.