Luk 24 | TSK | STEP | Christ's resurrection is declared by two angels to the women that come to the sepulchre. These report it to others. Christ himself appears to the two disciples that went to Emmaus; afterwards he appears to the apostles, and reproves their unbelief; gives them a charge; promises the Holy Ghost; and so ascends into heaven. upon. they came.

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."

6:45; De 6:7; Mal 3:6

Jesus.

36; Mt 18:20; Joh 14:18,19

31; 2Ki 6:18-20; Mr 16:12; Joh 20:14; 21:4

and are.

Eze 9:4-6; Joh 16:6,20-22

Cleopas.

Joh 19:25

Concerning.

7:16; Mt 21:11; Joh 3:2; 4:19; 6:14; 7:40-42,52; Ac 2:22; 10:38

mighty.

Ac 7:22

22:66-71; 23:1-5; Mt 27:1,2,20; Mr 15:1; Ac 3:13-15; 4:8-10

Ac 4:27,28; 5:30,31; 13:27-29

1:68; 2:38; Ps 130:8; Isa 59:20; Ac 1:6; 1Pe 1:18,19; Re 5:9

9-11; Mt 28:7,8; Mr 16:9,10; Joh 20:1,2,18

went.

12; Joh 20:1-10

O fools.Rather, inconsiderate men, [anoetos ,] 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.

Mr 7:18; 8:17,18; 9:19; 16:14; Heb 5:11,12

46; Ps 22:1-31; 69:1-36; Isa 53:1-12; Zec 13:7; Ac 17:3; 1Co 15:3,4

Heb 2:8-10; 9:22,23; 1Pe 1:3,11

beginning.

44; Ge 3:15; 22:18; 26:4; 49:10; Nu 21:6-9; De 18:15

Joh 5:39,45-47; Ac 3:22; 7:37

and all.

25; Ps 16:9,10; 132:11; Isa 7:14; 9:6,7; 40:10,11; 50:6; 52:13,14

Isa 53:1-12; Jer 23:5,6; 33:14,15; Eze 34:23; 37:25; Da 9:24-26

Mic 5:2-4; 7:20; Zec 9:9; 13:7; Mal 3:1-3; 4:2; Joh 1:45; Ac 3:24

Ac 10:43; 13:27-30; Re 19:10

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.

Ge 19:2; 32:26; 42:7; Mr 6:48

14:23; Ge 19:3; 2Ki 4:8; Ac 16:14

he took.

35; 9:16; 22:19; Mt 14:19; 15:36; 26:26; Mr 6:41; 8:6; 14:22; Joh 6:11

Ac 27:35

their eyes.

16; Joh 20:13-16

vanished out of their sight. or, ceased to be seen of them.

4:30; Joh 8:59

Did.

Ps 39:3; 104:34; Pr 27:9,17; Isa 50:4; Jer 15:16; 20:9; 23:29

Joh 6:63; Heb 4:12

opened.

45; Ac 17:2,3; 28:23

and found.

Joh 20:19-26

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?

hath.

22:54-62; Mr 16:7; 1Co 15:5

Mr 16:12,13

Jesus.

Mr 16:14; Joh 20:19-23; 1Co 15:5

Peace.

10:5; Isa 57:18; Mt 10:13; Joh 14:27; 16:33; 20:26; 2Th 3:16; Re 1:4

16:30; 1Sa 28:13; Job 4:14-16; Mt 14:26,27; Mr 6:49,50; Ac 12:15

and why.

Jer 4:14; Da 4:5,19; Mt 16:8; Heb 4:13

my hands.

Joh 20:20,25,27; Ac 1:3; 1Jo 1:1

for.

23:46; Nu 16:22; Ec 12:7; 1Th 5:23; Heb 12:9

believe.

Ge 45:26-28; Job 9:16; Ps 126:1,2; Joh 16:22

Have.

Joh 21:5,10-13

Ac 10:41

These.

6,7; 9:22; 18:31-33; Mt 16:21; 17:22,23; 20:18,19; Mr 8:31,32; 9:31

Mr 10:33,34

while.

Joh 16:4,5,16,17; 17:11-13

that all.

26,27,46; 21:22; Mt 26:54,56; Joh 19:24-37; Ac 3:18; 13:29-31,33

1Co 15:3,4

in the law.

Ge 3:15; 14:18; 22:18; 49:10; Le 16:2-19; Nu 21:8; 35:25; De 18:15-19

Joh 3:14; 5:46; Ac 3:22-24; 7:37; Heb 3:5; 7:1; 9:8; 10:1

in the prophets.

27; Isa 7:14; 9:6; 11:1-10; 28:16; 40:1-11; 42:1-4; 49:1-8; 50:2-6

Isa 52:13-15; 53:1-12; 61:1-3; Jer 23:5; 33:14; Eze 17:22; 34:23

Da 2:44; 7:13; 9:24-27; Ho 1:7-11; 3:5; Joe 2:28-32; Am 9:11

Mic 5:1-4; Hag 2:7-9; Zec 6:12; 9:9; 11:8-13; 12:10; 13:7; 14:4

Mal 3:1-3; 4:2-6

in the psalms.

Ps 2:1-12; 16:9-11; 22:1-31; 40:6-8; 69:1-36; 72:1-20; 88:1-18

Ps 109:4-20; 110:1-7; 118:22; Joh 5:39; Ac 17:2,3; 1Pe 1:11

Re 19:10

Ex 4:11; Job 33:16; Ps 119:18; Isa 29:10-12,18,19; Ac 16:14; 26:18

2Co 3:14-18; 4:4-6; Eph 5:14; Re 3:7

26,27,44; Ps 22:1-31; Isa 50:6; 53:2-12; Ac 4:12; 17:3; 1Pe 1:3

that.

Da 9:24; Mt 3:2; 9:13; Ac 2:38; 3:19; 5:31; 11:18; 13:38,39,46

Ac 17:30,31; 20:21; 26:20; 1Jo 2:12

among.

Ge 12:3; Ps 22:27; 67:2-4,7; 86:9; 98:1-3; 117:1-2; Isa 2:1-3; 11:10

Isa 49:6,22; 52:10,15; 60:1-3; 66:18-21; Jer 31:34; Ho 2:23; Mic 4:2

Mal 1:11; Mt 8:10,11; Ac 10:46-48; 18:5,6; 28:28; Ro 10:12-18

Ro 15:8-16; Eph 3:8; Col 1:27

beginning.

13:34; Isa 5:4; Ho 11:8; Mt 10:5,6; Ac 3:25,26; 13:46; Ro 5:20

Ro 11:26,27; Eph 1:6

Joh 15:27; Ac 1:8,22; 2:32; 3:15; 4:33; 5:32; 10:39,41; 13:31; 22:15

Heb 2:3,4; 1Jo 1:2,3

I send.

Isa 44:3,4; 59:20,21; Joe 2:28-32; Joh 14:16,17,26; 15:26; 16:7-16

but.

Isa 32:15; Ac 1:4,8; 2:1-21

as far.

Mr 11:1; Ac 1:12

he lifted.

Ge 14:18-20; 27:4; 48:9; 49:28; Nu 6:23-27; Mr 10:16; Heb 7:5-7

he was.

2Ki 2:11; Mr 16:19; Joh 20:17; Ac 1:9; Eph 4:8-10; Heb 1:3; 4:14

they.

Mt 28:9,17; Joh 20:28

with.

Ps 30:11; Joh 14:28; 16:7,22; 1Pe 1:8

in.

Ac 2:46,47; 5:41,42

Amen.

Mt 28:20; Mr 16:20; Re 22:21 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 ,] 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.