Difference between revisions of "Road to Emmaus"
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== Translating Luke 24:31 == | == Translating Luke 24:31 == | ||
Revision as of 07:03, February 27, 2022
The Road to Emmaus (pronounced "eh-MAY-uhs") 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, only one of whom is identified (Cleopas), with an ostensible stranger who joins them on the walk. They walked together towards Emmaus, a distance of about 7 miles, 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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Awareness
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. 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).
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]