Transforming (phase 4) - Jesus appears to the disciples on the road to Emmaus (step 30) - session 1e

Lk 24:13-36 (cont.)

Here's a final post on this passage before moving on to the additional ones listed for this step.

verse 17: what if Cleopas and his companion weren't sad only because of Jesus' crucifixion and death, but also because they didn't dare to place their hope in the tidings which they'd heard that very morning?

verse 19: they cannot bring themselves at this point to acknowledge Jesus as anything more than a mighty prophet. We do not know that they had ever proclaimed him to be more, as Peter did, so this is not necessarily a change from the previous week.

verse 21: although they clearly hoped he was more. But they probably, like most of their contemporaries, still had very different ideas concerning the nature and scope of Jesus' redemption, which would of course have been dashed by his death.

verse 33a: though they had completed their journey and the day was almost spent, yet they were so compelled that they had to go share the news at once. I am often too skeptical of my own story - or rather, of Jesus' story in my life - and so am not so urgently driven to share it.