‘And they said one to another, “Was our heart not burning within us, while he spoke to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?” '

Startled the two looked at one another and commented on how their hearts had been burning within them when He had been expounding the Scriptures to them while they were still on their journey. Now they knew why. Compare for the idea of a burning within Psalms 39:3; Jeremiah 20:9. It was expressing the work of the Holy Spirit and fire (Luke 3:16).

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