Then with a loud cry, Jesus said, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit!" And after uttering these words, he yielded up his spirit.

They were terrified, and bowed down their faces to the ground, but the men said to them. "Why are you seeking him who lives among the dead?

And he said to them, "What words are these that you are exchanging one with another, as you walk along?"

"What kind of things?" he answered. And they said: "The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

"and found that his body was not there; then they came and told us that besides they had seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

"Thereupon some of our own party to the tomb, and found it even so as the women had said, but him they did not see."

"O foolish men," said Jesus, "slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

"Were not our hearts burning within us," they said to each other, "while we were talking with him on the way, and he was opening to us the scriptures?"

While they were yet speaking he stood among them and said, "Peace be to you!"

And he said to them. "Why are you disturbed? And why do questions rise in your hearts?

Then he said to them, "These are my words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, how all things must be fulfilled which are written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms concerning me."

and he said: "Thus it is written that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead, the third day;