每本福音书中都有关于耶稣在主日的早晨之后向门徒显现的内容，当他们发现墓穴是空的时候，他们就会发现耶稣在主日早晨向门徒显现。例如，见 马太福音28:16-20; 马可福音16:14-19; 路加福音24:13-33; 约翰福音20:19-31Ⅳ级，以及 约翰福音21.

在《路加福音》中有这样一个故事：两个门徒从耶路撒冷走到以马忤斯村，大约有七英里的路程。他们出城后不久，又有一个旅行者来找他们，他注意到他们不安的表情和严肃的谈话，就问他们有什么事困扰着他们。他们一起走着走着，就问这个陌生人说："你们没听说过耶路撒冷的麻烦吗？"难道你们没有听说过耶路撒冷的麻烦吗？说来也奇怪，第三天，当一些妇女去膏他的尸体时，他们看见天使告诉他们，他不在那里，而是从死里复活了。"

旅行者一听这话，就责备他们不信，说："难道你们不明白基督要受这些事的苦，要进入他的荣耀里，难道你们不明白吗？"然后，这个陌生人告诉那两个门徒许多关于耶稣的事，从旧约圣经中的摩西书和先知的书中，有许多关于耶稣的事。那两个门徒敬畏地听着，却不认识这个陌生人。最后，他们到了以马忤斯。陌生人似乎想继续讲下去，但他们也求他停下来，因为天色已晚，他们想听更多的故事。于是他们都坐下来分享晚上的饭菜，当陌生人拿起面包，掰开面包给他们吃时，他们的眼睛睁开了，认出了他，他就消失了。

可以想象，当他们都意识到这就是耶稣的时候，他们两个人都惊呆了。他们知道他是被钉在十字架上，但他已经走了几个小时，和他们说话。那两个女人是对的！天使是对的。天使们是对的! 他还活着！

新教会认为，主的话语、圣经中的所有故事都有内在的意义，而这种内在的意义，在亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各、约书亚、撒母耳、大卫和其他的字面故事中，以及从以赛亚到玛拉基的所有先知的说法，还有四福音书......这种意义才是圣道的圣洁。

那么，在这个故事中，我们可以看到什么呢？ 那么，"摩西与先知 "中的那个内在意义，就是耶稣在世上的生活，从他在伯利恒出生到他所有的成长岁月，直到他的 "死"，再到他的复活。因为耶稣知道这一点，而且肯定是读过经文，内里明白，所以祂早就知道祂在世上的生命要如何结束，而且必须按 "经文 "所写的那样结束，以拯救人类。 所以，当他们向以马忤斯走去的时候，祂就把这个故事告诉了两个门徒。

更多关于行走的内容.....在圣言中，凡是提到行走，其实是指我们一天到晚的生活方式。 在圣经的许多故事中，都说有人与神同行。 说的是，我们应该在神的道路上行走，我们应该走直路、窄路。

在这个故事中，我们还被告知，这是一个由六十个驿站（原文是希腊文）组成的旅程。 六十（或其他倍数的 "六"）代表着我们一生的工作，就是拒绝来自于我们与生俱来的自私自利的诱惑。 启示录648.所以，这一次的以马忤斯之行，意味着我们的人生旅程--作为一个努力遵行主的教导，成为天使的人。

目的地是以马忤斯。在圣言中，任何城市都代表着一种教义，是一套有组织的真理，我们把这些真理放在一起，使我们能够按照这些真理来生活，也就是我们的生活准则。 请看 天国的秘密402.它们不一定是善的，如耶路撒冷或伯利恒，也可能是恶的教义，如所多玛或巴比伦。 我的字典告诉我，以马忤斯这个名字的意思是 "温泉"。圣经中的另一个普遍意义是，水的意思是指有益的真理，但也可以指被地狱中的人扭曲成虚假的真理，在相反的意义上，也可以指真理。比如说，请看。 天国的秘密790.想一想亚伯拉罕挖的水井，想一想耶稣在雅各的水井边向撒玛利亚的妇人所应许的水，想一想启示录中新耶路撒冷的宝座下流出来的纯洁的水河。从它的反面意义上说，水是有破坏性的，想想那场洪水，除了挪亚和他的家人之外，其他的人都被洪水摧毁了，或者是红海不得不分开，让以色列的子民可以渡过。 以马忤斯所代表的泉水，是圣洁的真理从圣言中涌出，供我们使用。 而这些都是温泉，热就代表着爱。所以，这就是我们的目的地，真理和爱一起流淌出来，从主那里源源不断地流淌出来，供我们使用。

这个关于门徒们在去以马忤斯路上与主相遇的平凡小轶事，不仅仅是一个关于耶稣用灵体复活的故事。这也是一个关于我们应该如何生活的故事。 我们可以向着天堂进发，听从主的话，与主同行，在路上与主同行，到了最后，主要与我们一起擘饼吃晚饭。

4638. Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins means the final period of the old Church and the first of the new. The Church is the Lord's kingdom on earth; 'the ten virgins' are all who belong to the Church, that is to say, both those who are governed by good and truth, and those who are under the influence of evil and falsity. 'Ten' in the internal sense means remnants, also that which is full and complete, and so means all, while 'virgins' means those who belong to the Church, as in other places in the Word.

[2] Who took their lamps means spiritual things which have what is celestial within them, or truths that have good within them, or what amounts to the same, faith that has charity towards the neighbour within it, and charity that has love to the Lord within it. For 'oil' means the good of love, dealt with below; but 'lamps that have no oil in them' means those same things when there is no good within them.

[3] They went out to meet the Bridegroom means their reception.

Five of them however were wise, but five were foolish means that one group of them possessed truths which had good within them, and another group possessed truths which did not have good within them. The former are 'the wise', but the latter 'the foolish'. In the internal sense 'five' means some, in this case therefore a group from within the whole.

Taking their lamps the foolish did not take oil with them means that they did not have within their truths the good of charity, 'oil' in the internal sense being the good of charity and love.

Whereas the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps means that they did have within their truths the good of charity and love - 'vessels' being matters of doctrine concerning faith.

[4] While the Bridegroom was tarrying they were all drowsy and went to sleep means delay, and therefore doubt. In the internal sense, 'being drowsy' means becoming, because of the delay, inattentive to things of the Church, while 'going to sleep' means nurturing doubt, in the case of 'the wise' doubt that goes with an affirmative attitude of mind, but in the case of 'the foolish' doubt that goes with a negative one.

At midnight there was a shout means the period of time which is the final one of the old Church and the first of the new. In the Word when the subject is the state of the Church this period is called 'night'. 'A shout' means a change taking place.

Behold, the Bridegroom is coming; go out to meet Him means judgement, that is to say, a time of being accepted or rejected.

[5] Then all those virgins were roused and they trimmed their lamps means the preparation of all, for those whose truths do not have good within them believe themselves to be no less accepted than those whose truths do have good within them. Indeed they imagine that faith alone saves and are unaware of the fact that no faith can exist where no charity does so.

But the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out means their desire for that good to be communicated from others to their own empty truths, that is, to their own hollow faith. For those who are in the next life communicate to one another every spiritual or celestial thing they possess, though only through good.

[6] But the wise replied, saying, Perhaps there will not be enough for us and for you means that no communication of it is possible because the small amount of good they have would be taken away from them. For in the next life, when good is communicated to those whose truths are devoid of good, they take away good so to speak from those who do have it and then keep it to themselves. They do not communicate it to others but defile it, which is why no good is communicated to them. My own experience of these people will be seen at the end of Chapter 37 below.

[7] Go rather to those who sell and buy for yourselves means meritorious good. Those who boast of having this kind of good are meant by 'those who sell'. Also, more than all others in the next life, people whose truth has no good within it think that they have earned merit through every deed they have performed which to all outward appearance looked like good, though inwardly it was evil, as the Lord says of them in Matthew, Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by Your name, and by Your name cast out demons, and do many mighty works in Your name? But then I will confess to them, I do not know you; depart from Me, you workers of iniquity! Matthew 7:22-23.

And in Luke,

Once the Householder has risen up and shut the door, then you will begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But He replying will say to you, I do not know where you come from. Then you will begin to say, We ate in your presence and we drank; and You taught in our Streets. But He will say, I tell you, I do not know where you come from; depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity! Luke 13:25-27.

This describes what those meant here by the foolish virgins are like, and that is why the following words referring to them occur in this parable - they 'came also, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he replying said, Truly, I say to you, I do not know you'.

[8] While they were going to buy however, the Bridegroom came means their perverse approach.

And those who were ready went in with Him to the wedding feast means that those who were governed by good, and from this by truth, were accepted into heaven. Heaven is likened to a wedding feast by virtue of the heavenly marriage, which is a marriage of good and truth, and the Lord to the Bridegroom because these people are joined to Him, while the Church is therefore called the Bride.

And the door was shut means that no others can enter.

[9] Afterwards the remaining virgins came also, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us means that they wish to enter on the basis of faith alone without charity, and of works in which the life of the Lord is not present, only selfish life.

But He replying said, Truly, I say to you, I do not know you means rejection. In the internal sense 'not knowing them' means that they lack any charity towards the neighbour, and are not joined through such charity to the Lord. Those who are not so joined to Him are said 'not to be known' by Him.

[10] Watch therefore, for you do not know the day, nor the hour, in which the Son of Man will be coming means an eagerness to live according to the commandments constituting a person's faith, meant by 'watching'. The actual time of acceptance, which is unknown to a person, and his state then, are meant by 'you do not know the day, nor the hour, in which the Son of Man will be coming'. One who is governed by good, that is, whose deeds conform to the commandments, is called 'wise', but one who has a knowledge of the truth, yet does not act in accordance with this, is called 'foolish', as they are elsewhere by the Lord in Matthew,

Everyone who hears My words and does them I will liken to a wise man. But everyone hearing My words and not doing them will be likened to a foolish man. Matthew 7:24, 26.