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var title="ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS";
var title2="Lesson 2";
	
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Text[0]='&nbsp;1. After Mary Magdalene had told Peter and John, she walked back to the empty grave.';

Text[1]='&nbsp;2. Mary stood outside the grave. She was so sad that she cried and cried.';

Text[2]='&nbsp;3. As she cried, Mary looked into the grave. She saw two angels sitting, one at the head and the other at the foot. They asked, "Woman, why are you crying?"';

Text[3]='&nbsp;4. Mary answered, "They have taken away my Lord, and I don\'t know where they have laid Him."';

Text[4]='&nbsp;5. Mary turned around. She saw someone standing there, but didn\'t know it was Jesus. Jesus asked, "Why are you crying? For whom are you looking?"';

Text[5]='&nbsp;6. Mary thought Jesus was the man who took care of the garden. She answered, "Sir, if you have carried His body away, tell me where you have laid it. I will take it away."';

Text[6]='&nbsp;7. Jesus said, "Mary!"';

Text[7]='&nbsp;8. She turned and said, "Master!"';

Text[8]='&nbsp;9. "Don\'t touch me," Jesus said. "I haven\'t gone up to My Father as yet. But tell My disciples, \'I am going up to My Father and Your Father, to My God and your God\'."';

Text[9]='&nbsp;10. Mary went and said to the disciples, "I saw the Lord." She also told them all that Jesus had told her.';

Text[10]='&nbsp;11. That same afternoon, two of Jesus\' followers were walking to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.';

Text[11]='&nbsp;12. While they were walking along Jesus came and walked with them, but they didn\'t know that it was Jesus.';

Text[12]='&nbsp;13. Jesus asked, "What are you talking about as you walk along?"';

Text[13]='&nbsp;14. One of them, Cleopas, asked, "Are You the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn\'t know what happened there?"';

Text[14]='&nbsp;15. Jesus asked, "What do you mean?"  They answered, "All about Jesus of Nazareth. We were hoping that He would be the Messiah. But the Council crucified Him three days ago. And now some of our women say Angels told them at the grave, "Jesus is risen."';

Text[15]='&nbsp;16. As they walked along, Jesus said, "How foolish you are and slow to believe all that the prophets said. Didn\'t the Savior have to suffer and then go to His glory?" Then Jesus explained all that the Old Testament had said about the Savior.';

Text[16]='&nbsp;17. When they came to Emmaus, Jesus pretended that He was going on. But they urged Him, "Stay with us. It\'s getting late!" So Jesus went in to stay with them.';

Text[17]='&nbsp;18. When they sat down to eat, Jesus took the bread and said grace. He broke the bread and gave it to them.';

Text[18]='&nbsp;19. Then the two knew it was Jesus! But now Jesus disappeared! When this happened, they said to each other. "Now we know why our hearts were thrilled when He was explaining the Scriptures to us!"';

Text[19]='&nbsp;20. The two hurried back the seven miles to Jerusalem to tell the other disciples. They simply could not keep the good news to themselves.';