Luke 24:13-53
two <1417> [two.]
Emmaus <1695> [Emmaus.]
Emmaus was situated, according to the testimony both of Luke and Josephus, sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, that is, about seven miles and a half. It has generally been confounded with Emmaus, a city of Judah, afterwards called Nicopolis; but Reland has satisfactorily shown that they were distinct places; the latter, according to the old Itinerary of Palestine, being situated 10 miles from Lydda, and 22 miles from Jerusalem. D'Arvieux states, that going from Jerusalem to Rama, he took the right from the high road to Rama, at some little distance from Jerusalem, and "travelled a good league over rocks and flint stones, to the end of the valley of terebinthine trees," until he reached Emmaus; which "seems, by the ruins which surround it, to have been formerly larger that it was in our Saviour's time. The Christians, while masters of the Holy Land, re-established it a little, and built several churches. Emmaus was not worth the trouble of having come out of the way to see it."
Jesus <2424> [Jesus.]
Then ................... And <1161 2532 2075> [and are.]
Cleopas <2810> [Cleopas.]
concerning <4012> [Concerning.]
powerful <1415> [mighty.]
went <565> [went.]
You foolish people <5599 453> [O fools.]
Rather, inconsiderate men, [anoetos <\\See definition 453\\>,] justly termed such, because they had not attended to the description of the Messiah by the prophets, nor to His teaching and miracles, as proofs that He alone was the person described.
beginning <756> [beginning.]
Then ..... and all .............. all <2532 3956> [and all.]
He acted as though <846 4364> [he made.]
That is, he was directing his steps as if to go onwards; and so he doubtless would, had he not been withheld by their friendly importunities. There is not the smallest ground for founding a charge of dissimulation against our Saviour, or affording any encouragement to dissimulation in others.
took <2983> [he took.]
their eyes ....... him ... he ..... their sight <846 3788> [their eyes.]
their ........ him ... he vanished out of their sight <846 1096 575> [vanished out of their sight. or, ceased to be seen of them.]
<2258> [Did.]
he was explaining <1272> [opened.]
So ............ They found .... and <2532 2147> [and found.]
saying <3004> [Saying.]
From Mr 16:13, we learn that the apostles did not believe the testimony even of the two disciples from Emmaus, while it is here asserted they were saying, when they entered the room, "The Lord is risen" etc. This difficulty is removed by rendering interrogatively, "Has the Lord risen," etc?
has appeared <3700> [hath.]
<2424> [Jesus.]
Peace <1515> [Peace.]
Then ...... Why ..... and why <2532 5101 1302> [and why.]
my hands ... my <3450 5495> [my hands.]
<3754> [for.]
[believe.]
Do you have <2192> [Have.]
These <3778> [These.]
<5607> [while.]
that everything <3754 3956> [that all.]
in ... law <1722 3551> [in the law.]
prophets <4396> [in the prophets.]
psalms <5568> [in the psalms.]
repentance <3341> [that.]
for ............ to <1519> [among.]
<756> [beginning.]
But <1161> [but.]
as far as <2193> [as far.]
lifting up <1869> [he lifted.]
he departed <1339> [he was.]
they ... him <846> [they.]
with <3326> [with.]
in <1722> [in.]
<281> [Amen.]
CONCLUDING REMARKS ON LUKE'S GOSPEL. Luke, to whom this Gospel has been uniformly attributed from the earliest ages of the Christian church, is generally allowed to have been "the beloved physician" mentioned by Paul, (Col 4:14;) and as he was the companion of that apostle, in all his labours and sufferings, for many years, (Ac 16:12; 20:1-6; 27:1,2; 28:13-16. 2Ti 4:11. Phm 24,) and wrote "the Acts of the Apostles," which conclude with a brief account of Paul's imprisonment at Rome, we may be assured that he had the Apostle's sanction to what he did; and probably this Gospel was written some time before that event, about A.D. 63 or 64, as is generally supposed. He would appear, from Col 4:10, 11, and his intimate acquaintance with the Greek language, as well as from his Greek name [Loukas <\\See definition 3065\\>,] to have been of Gentile extraction; and according to Eusebius and others, he was a native of Antioch. But, from the Hebraisms occurring in his writings, and especially from his accurate knowledge of the Jewish rites, ceremonies, and custom, it is highly probable that he was a Jewish proselyte, and afterwards converted to Christianity. Though he may not have been, as some have affirmed, one of the seventy disciples, and an eye-witness of our Saviour's miracles, yet his intercourse with the apostles, and those who were eye-witnesses of the works and ear witnesses of the words of Christ, renders him an unexceptional witness, if considered merely as an historian; and the early and unanimous reception of his Gospel as divinely inspired is sufficient to satisfy every reasonable person.
