Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 24:31
Their eyes were opened — That is, the supernatural cloud was removed: And he vanished — Went away insensibly.
Their eyes were opened — That is, the supernatural cloud was removed: And he vanished — Went away insensibly.
Verse 31. _THEIR EYES WERE OPENED_] But we are not to imagine that he administered the holy eucharist at this time; there is not the most distant evidence of this. It was a mere _family meal_, and end...
THEIR EYES WERE OPENED - The obscurity was removed. They saw him to be the Messiah. Their doubts were gone, and they saw clearly that he was risen, and was truly, as they had long hoped, the Saviour o...
VII. HIS RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION CHAPTER 24 _ 1. The Resurrection. (Luke 24:1)_ 2. The Walk to Emmaus; the Appearance of the Risen Son of Man. (Luke 24:13) 3. The Appearance to the Eleven. (Luk...
THE APPEARANCE ON THE WAY TO EMMAUS. This exquisite story is told by Lk. only. The village is perhaps the Ammaus of Josephus, the modern Kolonije, five miles W. from Jerusalem. Luke 24:19 f_._ describ...
THE WRONG PLACE TO LOOK (Luke 24:1-12)...
Now--look you--on that same day two of them were on the way to a village called Emmaus, which is about seven miles from Jerusalem; and they talked with each other about all the things which had happen...
VANISHED. became invisible. Greek. _aphantos._ Only here. OUT OF THEIR SIGHT. from (Greek. _apo._ App-104.) them....
_he vanished_ See on Luke 24:16....
ἌΦΑΝΤΟΣ ἘΓΈΝΕΤΟ. See on Luke 24:16. ἄφαντος is a poetic word for the Attic prose word ἀφανής. It does not occur in the LXX[421], Apocrypha, or elsewhere in the N. T. [421] LXX. Septuagint....
THE DISCIPLES AT EMMAUS...
Ver 25. Then he said to them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27. And beginnin...
ΔΙΗΝΟΊΧΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΔΙΑΝΟΊΓΩ (G1272) открывать. Богосл. _pass._, указывает, что это Бог открыл им глаза (Fitzmyer, 1568). ΈΠΈΓΝΩΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1921) узнавать, ΆΦΑ...
AND—AS HE SAT AT MEAT, &C.— The 31st verse shews that the impediment,orsupernaturalinfluence,whichhinderedtheirknowinghimbefore,was now removed. Yet granting that no supernatural impediment was then e...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 The Emmaus Conversation (Luke 24:13-32) 13 That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, 14and talking with each other...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Appearance on the Way to Emmaus Scripture_ Luke 24:13-35 And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was threescore furlongs from Jerus...
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. AND THEIR EYES WERE OPENED, AND THEY KNEW [OR 'RECOGNIZED' epegnoosan (G1921 )] HIM; AND HE VANISHED OUT OF THEIR...
22 Compare 1-11 24 Compare 12 Joh_20:2-16 36-40 Compare Mar_16:14; Joh_20:19-23 39 The nature of our Lord's resurrection is nowhere more clearly revealed than in His efforts to convince the trembli...
HE VANISHED] Our Lord's risen body was a perfect organ of spirit, and could manifest itself in whatever place, or under whatever sensible conditions He willed. After disappearing at Emmaus He seems to...
THE RESURRECTION AND THE ASCENSION 1-11. Two angels appear to the women at the sepulchre (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:1 : cp. John 20:1). See on Mt and Jn....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 24 THE *RESURRECTION 24:1-12 V1 Very early on the first day of the week, the women went to the *tomb. They carried the *spices that they had prepared...
AND HE VANISHED OUT OF THEIR SIGHT. — Literally, _He became invisible._ The adjective does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament. In the order of time this is the first example of the new condition...
CHAPTER 26 THE FIRST LORD'S DAY. THE Sabbath came and went over the grave of its Lord, and silence reigned in Joseph's garden, broken only by the mailed sentinels, who laughed and chatted by, the sea...
_On the way to Emmaus_ : in Lk. only, and one of the most beautiful and felicitous narratives in his Gospel, taken, according to J. Weiss (in Meyer), from Feine's precanonical Luke. Feine, after Holtz...
διηνοίχθησαν οἱ ὀφ., their eyes were at length opened, a Divine effect, but having its psychological causes. Euthy. suggests the use of the well-known blessing by Jesus as aiding recognition. The open...
“ABIDE WITH US” Luke 24:28-35 Our Lord must be invited and constrained. He will not impose Himself on an unwilling host; but how glad He is to enter where a welcome awaits! He turns ordinary meals in...
No human eye saw the resurrection. The women came early, but only to find the stone rolled away. The record of those earliest experiences is full of touching beauty. Luke alone gives us the story of t...
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he (e) vanished out of their sight. (e) Suddenly taken away, and we may not therefore imagine that he was there in an invisible body, but indeed bel...
CHAPTER 30 HE WAS SEEN BY PETER 1 Corinthians 15:5. As He appeared to the women on their first visit to the sepulcher before it was clear light; also to Mary Magdalene (and doubtless other women, as...
3. _The Appearance on the way to Emmaus: Luke 24:13-32_. VERS. 13-32. Here is one of the most admirable pieces in Luke's Gospel. As John alone has preserved to us the account of the appearance to Mary...
_Historical Conclusion._ When Jesus _made_ as if He would continue His journey, it was not a mere feint. He would have really gone, but for that sort of constraint which they exercised over Him. Every...
"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)...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
Luke 24:31._And their eyes were opened. _By these words, we are taught that there was not in Christ any _metamorphosis, _or _variety of forms, _by which he might impose on the eyes of men, (as the poe...
But the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, had prepared everything for the burial of His Son, who had glorified Him by giving Himself up to death. He is with the rich in His death. Jos...
AND THEIR EYES WERE OPENED,.... Not that they were before shut, or closed up, but what before held them was removed, and what hindered their sight and knowledge was taken away; and perhaps these actio...
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. Ver. 31. _Their eyes were opened_] The free and entire use of their inward and outward senses was restored unto them...
_And they drew near unto the village_, &c. His discourse made so deep an impression upon them, and engrossed their attention to such a degree, that they neither thought of the length of the journey, n...
THEIR EYES WERE OPENED; the difficulties in the way of their knowing him were removed. HE VANISHED; disappeared. They saw him no more....
AND THEIR EYES WERE OPENED, AND THEY KNEW HIM; AND HE VANISHED OUT OF THEIR SIGHT. The two, Emmaus pilgrims had opened their hearts to the Lord, for out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh...
Jesus, the kind Instructor:...
HE IS NOT HERE. BUT RISEN (vs.1-12) Though these dear women came to the grave very early in the morning the first day of the week, they were too late. Mary of Bethany had anointed the Lord Jesus befo...
VANISHED OUT OF THEIR SIGHT: Or, ceased to be seen of them...
28-35 If we would have Christ dwell with us, we must be earnest with him. Those that have experienced the pleasure and profit of communion with him, cannot but desire more of his company. He took bre...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI The liars, then, in reality are not those who for the sake of the scheme of salvation conform, nor those who err in minute points, but those who are wrong in es...
Luke 24:31 Then G1161 their G846 eyes G3788 opened G1272 (G5681) and G2532 knew G1921 (G5627) Him...
‘And their eyes were opened, and they knew him, and he vanished from their sight.' And it was when He performed this action that their eyes were opened and they knew Him, and He then, seemingly immedi...
TWO DISCIPLES MEET JESUS ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS (24:13-34). The women having been brought to believe, Jesus now brings two ‘unknown' disciples to belief. It may be that by these means He was hoping to...
Luke 24:31. AND THEIR EYES WERE OPENED. The supernatural influence spoken of in Luke 24:16 was re-moved. AND THEY KNEW HIM. Natural causes may have aided them. There may have been something peculiar...
This section is peculiar to Luke, although Mark 16:12 refers to the same event. This is the _fourth_ appearance of our Lord; that to Peter (Luke 24:34) having been passed over in the narrative. The pa...
WERE OPENED (διηνοιχθησαν). Ingressive first aorist passive indicative of διανοιγω.KNEW (επεγνωσαν). Effective first aorist active indicative fully recognized him. Same word in verse Luke 24:16.V...
Luke 24:30 Christ Meeting with Doubters. The story of the two disciples going to the village of Emmaus is the one which men in later ages have most connected with their own experiences; the one which...
Luke 24:1. Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the st...
Luke 24:13. _And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened...
Luke 24:13. _And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened...
Luke 24:1. Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the st...
CONTENTS: Resurrection of Christ. Ministry of the risen Christ. His commission to evangelization. The ascension. CHARACTERS: Jesus, angels, Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary mother of James, Peter, discip...
Luke 24:21. _To-day is the third day._ Christ was to rise the third day, according to the scriptures, as he had intimated to the disciples. Matthew 20:19. See also Genesis 22:4;...
STAY WITH US. That is, stay overnight and talk some more. AND SAID THE BLESSING. Not as a guest would do, but as a host. THEIR EYES WERE OPENED. This implies their eyesight was "distorted" so that he...
_Two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus_ THE JOURNEY TO EMMAUS I. WE SEE IN THIS APPEARANCE, AS IN THE OTHERS, SOMETHING VERY CHARACTERISTIC OF OUR LORD’S HABITS AND WAYS DURING HI...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 24:31 THEIR EYES WERE OPENED when Jesus broke the bread, suggesting that they recognized him as the crucified one who died for the redemption of Israel (see v. Luke 2
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 24:1 The Resurrection of Jesus. Luke’s Gospel began in the temple (Luke 1:5). After Jesus has risen from the dead, it will conclude in the temple as well ...
JESUS APPEARS TO TWO BELIEVERS TRAVELING ON THE ROAD MARK 16:12-13; LUKE 24:13-35; MARK 16:12 After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country....
CHAPTER 24 VER. 1. _Now upon the first day of the week._ The first day after the Sabbath, the Lord's day, _i.e._ the day on which Christ rose from the dead. See S. Matthew 28:1....
_Their eyes were opened._ "See here the power and effect of the Eucharist. It opens the eyes of the mind to the knowledge of Jesus, and enables it to comprehend heavenly and divine mysteries. For the...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 24:13. TWO OF THEM.—It is evident from Luke 24:33 that neither of them were apostles. The name of one of them is given in Luke 24:18, Cleopas (_i.e._, an abbreviation of Cleopatr...
EXPOSITION LUKE 24:1 THE RESURRECTION. All the four evangelists give an account of the Resurrection. None of the four, however, attempt to give a _history _of_ _it simply from a human point of sight...
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled aw...
John 20:13; John 8:59; Luke 4:30; Luke 24:16...
They knew [ε π ε γ ν ω σ α ν]. Clearly recognized. And he vanished out of their sight [α υ τ ο ς α φ α ν τ ο ς ε γ ε ν ε τ ο α π α υ τ ω ν]. Lit., he, invisible, became away from them. It is not simp...
A— Did Jesus dematerialize when He suddenly disappeared from the disciples after an appearance? PROBLEM: Jesus could not only suddenly appear after His resurrection (cf. John 20:19), but He could als...