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The disciples failed throughout their walk to recognize Jesus
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The ''HarperCollins Bible Dictionary'' states, “Anyone familiar with Palestinian Bedouin or Arabs in a pre-automotive culture would not doubt the disciples’ ability to walk forty miles in a day.”
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The Greek says 60 stadia, which varied in length depending on the region's average foot size. At one-tenth of a mile for 60 stadia, the total distance would have been 6 rather than 7 miles.
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→See also: add a link to A fascinating analysis of where precisely Emmaus was
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This encounter suggests that Jesus's nails in the Crucifixion were through his wrists rather than hands because the disciples would have noticed and remarked on nail wounds had they been in the hands as thus highly visible.
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the disciples could have been scribes intentionally selected by Jesus for this sermon
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{{Bibleref|Hebrews|13|2}} foreshadows Jesus's revelation at the end, by advising to be hospitable to strangers as they may be unrecognized angels.
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It is likely that the Epistle to the Hebrews documents what the stranger said to the two disciples during this walk.
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→Translating Luke 24:31: better: "This opened their eyes, and they recognized Him; whereupon his presence became hidden."
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This encounter has similarities to a passage in the Book of Genesis when Jacob wrestles, unwittingly, with Yahweh who took on a human form.
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This account is considered the most famous of the post-Resurrection encounters with Jesus./
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Caravaggio (1571-1610) also did multiple paintings of this incident, including his painting ''Supper at Emmaus'' in 1601.
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Rembrandt, for example, completed two paintings and two etchings of the incident
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→Translating Luke 24:31: The Greek word ἄφαντος, which is used only once in the entire Bible, means "invisible". It implies that Jesus did not leave but became hidden. That is consistent with modern quantum mechanics and awareness, a
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→Awareness: Similarly, the Fall in the Garden of Eden in the Book of Genesis is about the awareness of good and evil.
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The tasting of the water that had become wine, a miracle in the Gospel of John, also utilizes awareness to attain a physical result.
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→Awareness: Nearly 2000 years later, modern quantum mechanics proved a similar astounding physical impact of human awareness.
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→Awareness: Other passages where awareness had a physical impact is the walking on water by Peter (he sunk when he became aware of the challenges) and the calming of the storm by Jesus (it calmed when he observed it).
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This account is one of several places in the Bible which describes a physical effect caused by awareness: here, the inability to see Jesus once the observers became aware of his presence.
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→See also: YouTube short reenactment of the encounter, from ''The Passion'' (a BBC miniseries)]
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A third, less common but perhaps more precise, approach is to translate Luke 24:31 as "became unseen."
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