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| − | The '''Road to Emmaus''' is one of the most beautiful and piercing accounts in all of [[the Gospels]]. As set forth at Luke 24:13-35, it describes an encounter by two disciples of [[Jesus]] with an ostensible stranger. They walked together towards Emmaus until it was too dark to proceed further. | + | The '''Road to Emmaus''' is one of the most beautiful and piercing accounts in all of [[the Gospels]]. As set forth at [[Luke 17-24 (Translated)#24:13|Luke 24:13-35]], it describes an encounter by two disciples of [[Jesus]] with an ostensible stranger. They walked together towards Emmaus until it was too dark to proceed further. |
The incident is so compelling that there have been many paintings, particularly from the [[Renaissance]], which attempt to depict it. [[Rembrandt]], for example, painted ''Christ at Emmaus'' | The incident is so compelling that there have been many paintings, particularly from the [[Renaissance]], which attempt to depict it. [[Rembrandt]], for example, painted ''Christ at Emmaus'' | ||
Revision as of 07:00, February 26, 2022
The Road to Emmaus is one of the most beautiful and piercing accounts in all of the Gospels. As set forth at Luke 24:13-35, it describes an encounter by two disciples of Jesus with an ostensible stranger. They walked together towards Emmaus until it was too dark to proceed further.
The incident is so compelling that there have been many paintings, particularly from the Renaissance, which attempt to depict it. Rembrandt, for example, painted Christ at Emmaus in 1648 which is now at the Louvre.
The encounter captures perfectly the startling sensation of surprise awareness that is so difficult to describe.
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Translating Luke 24:31
English Bible translations are almost evenly divided on whether to translate as "vanish" or "disappear" the departure of Jesus from the two disciples. A third, less common but perhaps more precise, approach is to translate Luke 24:31 as "became unseen."[1]