Luke 24:13-35 - Jon B

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Luke 24:13–35 (ESV)
Luke 24:13 That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, 
Luke 24:14 and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. 
Luke 24:15 While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. 
Luke 24:16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. 
Luke 24:17 And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. 
Luke 24:18 Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” 
Luke 24:19 And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, 
Luke 24:20 and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. 
Luke 24:21 But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. 
Luke 24:22 Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning, 
Luke 24:23 and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. 
Luke 24:24 Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.” 
Luke 24:25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 
Luke 24:26 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” 
Luke 24:27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. 
Luke 24:28 So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He acted as if he were going farther, 
Luke 24:29 but they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them. 
Luke 24:30 When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. 
Luke 24:31 And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight. 
Luke 24:32 They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?” 
Luke 24:33 And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, 
Luke 24:34 saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” 
Luke 24:35 Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.

Acts 17:16-34 Part 1 - Jon B

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Acts 17:16–34 (ESV)
Acts 17:16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. 
Acts 17:17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. 
Acts 17:18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, “What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. 
Acts 17:19 And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 
Acts 17:20 For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.” 
Acts 17:21 Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new. 
Acts 17:22 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. 
Acts 17:23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 
Acts 17:24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 
Acts 17:25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. 
Acts 17:26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 
Acts 17:27 that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 
Acts 17:28 for “ ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “ ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’ 
Acts 17:29 Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 
Acts 17:30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 
Acts 17:31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” 
Acts 17:32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.” 
Acts 17:33 So Paul went out from their midst. 
Acts 17:34 But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.