Luke 24:17
Good News Translation
Jesus said to them, "What are you talking about to each other, as you walk along?" They stood still, with sad faces.

New Revised Standard Version
And he said to them, “What are you discussing with each other while you walk along?” They stood still, looking sad.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus asked them, "What were you talking about as you walked along?" The two of them stood there looking sad and gloomy.

New American Bible
He asked them, “What are you discussing as you walk along?” They stopped, looking downcast.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one with another as you walk and are sad?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one with another as you walk and are sad?

and are.

Ezekiel 9:4-6 And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the abominations that are committed in the midst thereof. . . .

John 16:6,20-22 But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. . . .

Context
The Road to Emmaus
16But their eyes were held, that they should not know him. 17And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one with another as you walk and are sad? 18And the one of them, whose name was Cleophas, answering, said to him: Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things that have been done there in these days?…
Cross References
Luke 24:16
But their eyes were held, that they should not know him.

Luke 24:18
And the one of them, whose name was Cleophas, answering, said to him: Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things that have been done there in these days?

Luke 24:16
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