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Texts -- Luke 24:25-53 (NET)

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24:25 So he said to them , “You foolish people – how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken ! 24:26 Wasn’t it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into his glory ?” 24:27 Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them the things written about himself in all the scriptures . 24:28 So they approached the village where they were going . He acted as though he wanted to go farther , 24:29 but they urged him , “Stay with us , because it is getting toward evening and the day is almost done .” So he went in to stay with them . 24:30 When he had taken his place at the table with them , he took the bread , blessed and broke it, and gave it to them . 24:31 At this point their eyes were opened and they recognized him . Then he vanished out of their sight . 24:32 They said to each other , “Didn’t our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road , while he was explaining the scriptures to us ?” 24:33 So they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem . They found the eleven and those with them gathered together 24:34 and saying , “The Lord has really risen , and has appeared to Simon !” 24:35 Then they told what had happened on the road , and how they recognized him when he broke the bread .
Jesus Makes a Final Appearance
24:36 While they were saying these things , Jesus himself stood among them and said to them , “Peace be with you .” 24:37 But they were startled and terrified , thinking they saw a ghost . 24:38 Then he said to them , “Why are you frightened , and why do doubts arise in your hearts ? 24:39 Look at my hands and my feet ; it’s me ! Touch me and see ; a ghost does not have flesh and bones like you see I have .” 24:40 When he had said this , he showed them his hands and his feet . 24:41 And while they still could not believe it (because of their joy ) and were amazed , he said to them , “Do you have anything here to eat ?” 24:42 So they gave him a piece of broiled fish , 24:43 and he took it and ate it in front of them .
Jesus’ Final Commission
24:44 Then he said to them , “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you , that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled .” 24:45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures , 24:46 and said to them , “Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day , 24:47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all nations , beginning from Jerusalem . 24:48 You are witnesses of these things . 24:49 And look , I am sending you what my Father promised . But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high .”
Jesus’ Departure
24:50 Then Jesus led them out as far as Bethany , and lifting up his hands , he blessed them . 24:51 Now during the blessing he departed and was taken up into heaven . 24:52 So they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy , 24:53 and were continually in the temple courts blessing God .

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  • 'Ku Suka Menuturkan [KJ.427] ( I Love to Tell the Story )
  • Arah ke Sorga Cemerlang [KJ.221] ( The Lord Ascendeth Up on High )
  • Berkumandang Suara dari Seberang [KJ.425] ( Send the light / There's a Call Comes Ringing )
  • Dikau Yang Bangkit, Mahamulia [KJ.194]
  • Fajar Hidup Merekah [KJ.208]
  • Hai Dengar Tembang Malaikat [KJ.104]
  • Kau Mutiara Hatiku [KJ.324]
  • Keluar Dari Kaum [KJ.342]
  • Kita Harus Membawa Berita [KJ.426]
  • Lihatlah Sekelilingmu [KJ.428]
  • Maut Sudah Menyerah [KJ.202] ( Angels, Roll the Rock Away )
  • Naik ke Sorga Cemerlang [KJ.218]
  • Nyanyian Malaikat Nyaring Bergema [KJ.223] ( Golden Harps Are Sounding )
  • Puji Tuhan, Haleluya [KJ.391]
  • Sungguh Indah Kabar Mulia [KJ.383] ( Yesterday, Today, Forever )
  • Syukur Kami padaMu [KJ.320]
  • Tinggal Sertaku [KJ.329] ( Abide with Me )
  • Tuhan Melawat UmatNya [KJ.214]
  • UmatMu Bersembah Sujud [KJ.227]
  • [Luk 24:27] In Thy Glorious Resurrection
  • [Luk 24:27] Come Then, Thou Prophet Of The Lord
  • [Luk 24:29] Abide With Me
  • [Luk 24:29] Abide With Me, ’tis Eventide
  • [Luk 24:29] Abide With Us, Our Savior
  • [Luk 24:29] Abide With Us, The Day Is Waning
  • [Luk 24:29] As Now The Sun’s Declining Rays
  • [Luk 24:29] Day, O Lord, Is Spent, The
  • [Luk 24:29] Day Is Gently Sinking To A Close, The
  • [Luk 24:29] Since Without You We Do No Good
  • [Luk 24:29] Tarry With Me (scott)
  • [Luk 24:29] Tarry With Me (smith)
  • [Luk 24:30] Be Known To Us In Breaking Bread
  • [Luk 24:32] I Was There When It Happened
  • [Luk 24:32] Walk Thou With Me
  • [Luk 24:32] Walking And Talking With Jesus
  • [Luk 24:34] Easter Song
  • [Luk 24:34] How Shall We Answer Terror’s Cry?
  • [Luk 24:34] Morning Kindles All The Sky, The
  • [Luk 24:34] O Joyous Easter Morning
  • [Luk 24:34] Lord Is Ris’n Indeed, The
  • [Luk 24:36] Peace To My Soul
  • [Luk 24:39] That Eastertide With Joy Was Bright
  • [Luk 24:49] Baptize Us Anew
  • [Luk 24:49] Faith Is A Living Power From Heaven
  • [Luk 24:49] Holy Spirit, Hear Us (mohr)
  • [Luk 24:50] Father Almighty, Bless Us With Thy Blessing
  • [Luk 24:50] Sweet Savior, Bless Us Ere We Go

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How Jesus Interacted With People; Resurrection Events; Why We Believe Jesus Rose from the Dead; Luke 24:113-35; Luke 24:18; Who Is Jesus Christ?; A Sign for Unbelievers; 1 Corinthians 15:37; Search the Scriptures; Steps for Personal and Family Revival; Steps for Personal and Family Revival; Parade Float; Mark 16:16; Peter’s Restoration; A Transformed Body; Mark 16:16

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Expository Notes on the Bible (Constable)

  • The authorship of the Pentateuch has been the subject of great controversy among professing Christians since Spinoza introduced "higher criticism"of the Bible in the seventeenth century. The "documentary hypothesis,"which dev...
  • Moses wrote Numbers (cf. Num. 1:1; 33:2; Matt. 8:4; 19:7; Luke 24:44; John 1:45; et al.). He evidently did so late in his life on the plains of Moab.1Moses evidently died close to 1406 B.C. since the Exodus happened about 144...
  • 22:16 David compared his enemies to wild dogs that had him surrounded and were waiting to finish him off. Already he felt as though they had begun to tear him apart by biting his extremities, his hands and feet. Years later t...
  • The primary purpose of the book seems to be to present an example of the proper pre-marital, marital, and post-marital relationship of a man and a woman. This example includes illustrations of the solutions to common problems...
  • 11:22-23 Ezekiel then saw in his vision the glory of God depart from the temple gate and from the city of Jerusalem. He saw the cherubim under Yahweh's throne-chariot bear the Lord east from the entrance of the temple to the ...
  • Jesus' baptism was the occasion at which His messiahship became obvious publicly. Matthew recorded this event as he did to convince his readers further of Jesus' messianic qualifications.3:13-14 John hesitated to baptize Jesu...
  • It was natural for Jesus to explain His view of the Old Testament since He would shortly proceed to interpret it to His hearers.5:17 Some of the Jews may have already concluded that Jesus was a radical who was discarding the ...
  • 28:11 Some of the guards left the others at the tomb and reported the earthquake, the angel, and the empty tomb to the chief priests.28:12-14 The action of these Sanhedrin members proves that their promise to believe in Jesus...
  • 16:9 The NIV has supplied "Jesus."The Greek text says, "Now after He had risen."The antecedent of "He"is obviously Jesus, but the lack of this antecedent in the immediately preceding context seems to some interpreters to indi...
  • The first Gospel presented Jesus as the King. The second Gospel presented Him as the Servant. The third Gospel presents Him as the perfect Man. Matthew wrote to Jews about their King. Mark wrote to Romans about a Servant. Luk...
  • I. Introduction 1:1-4II. The birth and childhood of Jesus 1:5-2:52A. The announcement of John the Baptist's birth 1:5-251. The introduction of John's parents 1:5-72. The angel's announcement to Zechariah 1:8-233. The pregnanc...
  • There is great theological significance in this familiar passage. It comes through mainly in the angel's words and in the symbolism of what happened."In 2:8-14 we have a third annunciation scene, which follows the same patter...
  • 3:1-2 Luke made detailed reference to the time when John commenced his ministry to document the reliability of his Gospel.116Only the reference to Tiberius is necessary to date the beginning of John's ministry that shortly pr...
  • Luke's account of this significant event is shorter than the parallel passages. At His baptism, Jesus received the anointing of the Holy Spirit for His ministry. It was also the occasion for the Father to authenticate Jesus a...
  • Luke stressed how the Spirit who had come upon Jesus at His baptism guided and empowered Him in His temptation and how Jesus, God's approved Son, pleased His Father by His obedience. Jesus overcame the devil who opposed God's...
  • In contrast to most people, the inhabitants of Jesus' hometown did not praise Him. When Jesus began to speak of God extending salvation to the Gentiles, a particular interest of Luke's, the Jews there opposed Him violently. P...
  • This miracle raised the popular appreciation of Jesus' authority to new heights. Luke also continued to stress Jesus' compassion for people, in this case a widow whose son had died, by including this incident in his Gospel. T...
  • This event is the climax of the "identity of Jesus"motif in all the Synoptics. Here the disciples saw and heard who Jesus really was. Luke's particular emphasis was the sufferings of Jesus that were coming. This comes through...
  • Luke stressed the joy that the Seventy experienced because they participated in God's program. As we have noted before, Luke often referred to the joy that Jesus brought to people (cf. 1:14, 46; 24:52; et al.). In view of Jes...
  • This incident followed the preceding one immediately (v. 21). The subject of joy continues, and the section on the responsibilities and rewards of discipleship reaches its climax here. Jesus expressed His joy to the Father in...
  • 11:11-12 These two examples further enforce the point that God will respond to our prayers, and they stress that He will do so kindly (cf. Matt. 7:9-10). Since God is our heavenly Father, He will do no less than a normal eart...
  • 17:22-23 Jesus next gave His disciples more instruction about the coming of the kingdom. One of the days of the Son of Man refers to one of the future days when the Son of Man will be reigning on the earth (cf. vv. 24-25, 30)...
  • Jesus' passion announcements to His disciples constitute important structural markers in Mark's Gospel. Luke and Matthew did not use them this way. The incident before us was the third passion announcement that Jesus gave bes...
  • These verses record Jesus' introduction to what followed and are similar to the welcoming words of a host before his guests begin their meal. This is the seventh of nine meal scenes that Luke recorded in his Gospel (cf. 5:29-...
  • Luke's account of the events following Jesus' resurrection stresses the reality of that event and the reactions of the witnesses to it. All these people felt depressed because of Jesus' death, but when they learned of His res...
  • This is another of Luke's exquisite and unique stories. Various students of it have noted its similarity to the stories of the feeding of the 5,000 (9:10-17), the appearance in Jerusalem (vv. 36-49), and the Ethiopian eunuch ...
  • Luke arranged his accounts of Jesus' post-resurrection appearances to give the impression that an ever increasing audience learned of this great event. First, he recorded an announcement of it with no witnesses (vv. 1-12). Th...
  • The emphasis here is on the physical reality of Jesus' body after His resurrection whereas in the previous pericope the stress was on His supernatural nature. The incident clarifies that the One who rose from the dead was ind...
  • All the Gospels contain instances of Jesus giving the Great Commission to His disciples, but evidently He did not just give it once. The contexts are different suggesting that He repeated these instructions on at least four s...
  • Jesus' ascension was already in view in 9:51. There Luke presented it as the ultimate goal of Jesus' first advent ministry. Jesus' ascension would have happened even if the Jews had accepted Him as their Messiah. Prophecies o...
  • Alford, Henry. The Greek Testament. New ed. 4 vols. London: Rivingtons, 1880.Bailey, Kenneth E. Poet and Peasant: A Literary-Cultural Approach to the Parables in Luke. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1977.Bishop...
  • John omitted the earthquake, the angel rolling away the stone that covered the tomb entrance, and his sitting on the stone (Matt. 28:2-3). He also did not include the appearance of two angels to the women who visited the tomb...
  • This is the first of four of Jesus' post-resurrection appearances that John included in his Gospel.Jesus' Post-resurrection Appearances627Easter morningto Mary Magdalene (Mark 16:9-11; John 20:10-18)to other women (Matt. 28:9...
  • This pericope contains another post-resurrection appearance of Jesus that bolstered the disciples' faith. It also contains John's account of the Great Commission.20:19 John moved his readers directly from the events of Easter...
  • 21:1 John recorded still another post-resurrection appearance of Jesus to His disciples. It undoubtedly occurred during the 32-day period between Thomas' confession (20:28) and Jesus' ascension (Acts 1:9). Exactly when is uni...
  • Luke wrote these introductory statements to connect the Book of Acts with his Gospel.17In the former book Luke had recorded what Jesus had begun to do and to teach during His earthly ministry. In this second book he wrote wha...
  • The key to the apostles' successful fulfillment of Jesus' commission was their baptism with and consequent indwelling by the Holy Spirit. Without this divine enablement they would only have been able to follow Jesus' example,...
  • 1:9 Jesus Christ's ascension necessarily preceded the descent of the Holy Spirit to baptize and indwell believers in God's plan (John 14:16, 26; 15:26; 16:7; Acts 2:33-36). "While they were looking on"stresses the fact that t...
  • 1:12-13 The disciples returned to Jerusalem to await the coming of the Holy Spirit. The short trip from where Jesus ascended on Mt. Olivet to the upper room was only a Sabbath day's journey away (about 2,000 cubits, two-third...
  • 2:37 The Holy Spirit used Peter's sermon to bring conviction, as Jesus had predicted (John 16:8-11). He convicted Peter's hearers of the truth of what he said and of their guilt in rejecting Jesus. Their question arose from t...
  • Luke now moved from describing what took place on a particular day to a more general description of the life of the early Jerusalem church (cf. 4:32-5:11; 6:1-6). Interestingly he gave comparatively little attention to the in...
  • Peter's sermon on this occasion is the first sermon in Acts addressed to a Gentile audience (cf. 14:15-17; 17:22-31). It is quite similar to the ones Peter preached in 2:14-40 and 3:11-26 except that this one has more informa...
  • Peter's explanation was satisfactory to his critics. His Jewish brethren agreed that God was saving Gentiles simply by faith in Jesus Christ just as He was saving Jews and that they should no longer regard Gentiles as "unclea...
  • 17:1 Paul, Silas, Timothy, and perhaps others left Philippi and headed southwest on the Egnatian Road. Luke evidently stayed in Philippi since he again described Paul's party as "they"instead of "we"(cf. 20:5-6). Paul and Sil...
  • 27:27-28 The ancient name of the central part of the Mediterranean Sea was the Adriatic or Hadriatic Sea. People referred to what we now call the Adriatic Sea as the Gulf of Adria or Hadria or as the Ionian Sea.955The winds a...
  • Paul began by reaffirming their commonly held belief: Jesus Christ was raised from the dead. In this section the apostle stressed the objective reality of both Jesus Christ's death and resurrection.15:1 The Corinthians and al...
  • The apostle began to apply the principle stated in 2:15-21 to his audience.3:1 It is folly to mix law and grace. The Galatians were behaving as though they were under some kind of spell and not in full use of their rational f...
  • "God's spiritual blessings for believers are based not only on the sovereign election of the Father (vv. 3-6) and the redemptive work of the Son (vv. 7-12), but also on the seal of the Holy Spirit."301:13 In contrast to the J...
  • Paul proceeded to deal with a significant group of antagonists that the Philippians faced.3:2 Jesus and other prophets used the term "dogs"to refer to opponents of God's truth (Matt. 7:6; cf. Deut. 23:18; 1 Sam. 17:43; 24:14;...
  • Paul told his readers that he prayed for their full perception and deepest understanding of God's will for them and for all believers. He did this so they would be able to glorify God in their conduct. He told them this to re...
  • In view of the imminency of Christ's return Paul exhorted the Thessalonians to be ready to prepare them to meet the Lord at any time."The former [paragraph, i.e., 4:13-18] offered instruction concerning the dead in Christ; th...
  • "This writing begins without any of the formal features characteristic of a letter, such as we found in 2 John and 3 John. Since the conclusion also lacks any typical features of a letter, we must conclude that the writing is...
  • "These things"refer to the revelation of the messages to the seven churches (chs. 2-3; cf. 1:19). After John had received these messages, he received a vision of heaven in which Jesus Christ invited him (cf. 1:10, 12-16) to e...
  • 20:1 The first word, "And,"supports the idea of chronological sequence. It implies a continuation from what John just revealed (cf. 19:11, 17, 19; 20:4, 11, 12; 21:1, 2, 22). Amillennial interpreters disagree."John says nothi...

Expositions Of Holy Scripture (Maclaren)

  • The babe lying in a manger…'--Luke 2:16.While He blessed them, He was parted from them, and carried up into heaven…'--Luke 24:51.This same Jesus shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go--Acts 1:11.THESE t...
  • And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. 14. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. 15. And it came to pass, that, w...
  • Probably the former had left the group of disciples on purpose to relieve the tension of anxiety and sorrow by walking, and to get a quiet time to bring their thoughts into some order. They were like men who had lived through...
  • And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and He made as though He would have gone further. 29. But they constrained Him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And He went in...
  • And it came to pass, as He sat at meat with them, He took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. 31. And their eyes were opened, and they knew Him; and He vanished out of their sight.'--Luke 24:30-31.PERHAPS the ...
  • The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.'--Luke 24:34.THE other appearances of the risen Lord to individuals on the day of Resurrection are narrated with much particularity, and at considerable length. John gives...
  • And as they thus spake, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. 37. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. 38. And He said unto them, Why ar...
  • They fall into stages which are distinctly separated. First we have (Luke 24:44) the reiteration of Christ's earlier teaching, which had been dark when delivered, and now flashed up into light when explained by the event. The...
  • We cannot here enter on the large questions which it raises, but must content ourselves with simply pointing to the salient features of Luke's condensed account. The mention of the place as over against Bethany' recalls the m...
  • Ye are witnesses of these things. 49, And, behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.'--Luke 24:48-49.LUKE'S account of the Resurrectio...
  • And He led them out as far as to Bethany, and He lifted up His hands, and blessed them. 51. And it came to pass, while He blessed them, He was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.'--Luke 24:50-51.And when He had spok...
  • The first appearance of the Lord, and revelation of the new form of intercourse.Nothing had been said of Mary's return to the tomb; but how could she stay away? The disciples might go, but she lingered, woman-like, to indulg...
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