Road to Emmaus

The place was Jerusalem and the year was 32 c.e. It was three days after the Passover festival and the first day of the week. Two men were beginning their two hour walk back to their home town of Emmaus. They were sad because only three days earlier their leader named Jesus, who was their teacher and their hope for the future was killed.

As they walked along with their faces long and depressed, they were interrupted by a strange man who asked them, "Why are you two so sad?"

Not knowing that t...