King James Version
What Does Luke 24:15 Mean?
“And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.”
Context
13
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
And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
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But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
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And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(15) **While they communed together . . .**—The verb is the same as that translated “talked” in the preceding verse.
**Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.**—Excluding, as we must do in such a case, the element of chance, we are left to conjecture the reasons for this special manifestation. Neither of the two travellers belonged to the Twelve. They may possibly have been of the number of the Seventy. May we think that it was in tender sympathy with the trials to which their thoughtful and yearning temper specially exposed them, that their Master thus drew near to them? They had cherished the hope that the kingdom of God would immediately appear (Luke 19:11), and now it seemed further off than ever. And He came, partly, it may be, with altered garb and tone, partly as holding their senses under supernatural control, so that they knew Him not. He was to them as a man of like passions with themselves. (Comp. the appearance to Mary Magdalene, John 20:15.)
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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