40 Days After the Resurrection - Part 2
The Road to Emmaus
"That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. And as they talked and deliberated, Jesus Himself came up and walked along with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.
He asked them, “What are you discussing so intently as you walk along?”
They stood still, with sadness on their faces. One of them, named Cleopas, asked Him, “Are You the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in recent days?”
“What things?” He asked.
“The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people. Our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and they crucified Him. But we were hoping He was the One who would redeem Israel. And besides all this, it is the third day since these things took place.
Furthermore, some of our women astounded us. They were at the tomb early this morning, but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive. Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had described. But Him they did not see.” Luke 24:13-24
So we are back continuing to look at that 40 day period when Jesus appeared in the flesh to several hundreds of people after his resurrection.
As we read above, Luke narrated in the passage that Jesus appeared to two people who were walking on their way to the village called Emmaus.
Jesus appeared to them as they were busy talking about what would have been the talk of the town, the viral news of the day.
According to the narrative, the two people did not recognize that the person they were speaking with was indeed Jesus. Tomorrow, we we will read the succeeding part of the narrative and see what happened next.
As we have already talked about from the previous series, none of the early believers believed that Jesus rose from the dead but this event and others we will still look at during a period of 40 days after the resurrection will all help them to finally believe.
Then we will understand why they wrote down their eye witness accounts for all of us future generations and why they spent the remainder of their lives spreading the good news of Jesus Christ.
"That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. And as they talked and deliberated, Jesus Himself came up and walked along with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.
He asked them, “What are you discussing so intently as you walk along?”
They stood still, with sadness on their faces. One of them, named Cleopas, asked Him, “Are You the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in recent days?”
“What things?” He asked.
“The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people. Our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and they crucified Him. But we were hoping He was the One who would redeem Israel. And besides all this, it is the third day since these things took place.
Furthermore, some of our women astounded us. They were at the tomb early this morning, but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive. Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had described. But Him they did not see.” Luke 24:13-24
So we are back continuing to look at that 40 day period when Jesus appeared in the flesh to several hundreds of people after his resurrection.
As we read above, Luke narrated in the passage that Jesus appeared to two people who were walking on their way to the village called Emmaus.
Jesus appeared to them as they were busy talking about what would have been the talk of the town, the viral news of the day.
According to the narrative, the two people did not recognize that the person they were speaking with was indeed Jesus. Tomorrow, we we will read the succeeding part of the narrative and see what happened next.
As we have already talked about from the previous series, none of the early believers believed that Jesus rose from the dead but this event and others we will still look at during a period of 40 days after the resurrection will all help them to finally believe.
Then we will understand why they wrote down their eye witness accounts for all of us future generations and why they spent the remainder of their lives spreading the good news of Jesus Christ.
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