Luk 24:13-21 | TSK | e4.org | two ; Emmaus Emmaus was situated, according to the testimony both of Luke and Josephus, sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, that is, about seven miles and a half. It has generally been confounded with Emmaus, a city of Judah, afterwards called Nicopolis; but Reland has satisfactorily shown that they were distinct places; the latter, according to the old Itinerary of Palestine, being situated 10 miles from Lydda, and 22 miles from Jerusalem. D'Arvieux states, that going from Jerusalem to Rama, he took the right from the high road to Rama, at some little distance from Jerusalem, and "travelled a good league over rocks and flint stones, to the end of the valley of terebinthine trees," until he reached Emmaus; which "seems, by the ruins which surround it, to have been formerly larger that it was in our Saviour's time. The Christians, while masters of the Holy Land, re-established it a little, and built several churches. Emmaus was not worth the trouble of having come out of the way to see it."

‏ Luke 24:13-21

Emmaus Emmaus was situated, according to the testimony both of Luke and Josephus, sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, that is, about seven miles and a half. It has generally been confounded with Emmaus, a city of Judah, afterwards called Nicopolis; but Reland has satisfactorily shown that they were distinct places; the latter, according to the old Itinerary of Palestine, being situated 10 miles from Lydda, and 22 miles from Jerusalem. D'Arvieux states, that going from Jerusalem to Rama, he took the right from the high road to Rama, at some little distance from Jerusalem, and "travelled a good league over rocks and flint stones, to the end of the valley of terebinthine trees," until he reached Emmaus; which "seems, by the ruins which surround it, to have been formerly larger that it was in our Saviour's time. The Christians, while masters of the Holy Land, re-established it a little, and built several churches. Emmaus was not worth the trouble of having come out of the way to see it."

Luke 6:45; Deut 6:7; Mal 3:6

Jesus Luke 24:36; Matt 18:20; John 14:18-19

Luke 24:31; 2Kgs 6:18-20; Mark 16:12; John 20:14, John 21:4

and are Ezek 9:4-6; John 16:6, John 16:20-22

Cleopas John 19:25

Concerning Luke 7:16; Matt 21:11; John 3:2, John 4:19, John 6:14, John 7:40-42, John 7:52; Acts 2:22, Acts 10:38

mighty Acts 7:22

Luke 22:66-71, Luke 23:1-5; Matt 27:1-2, Matt 27:20; Mark 15:1; Acts 3:13-15, Acts 4:8-10; Acts 4:27-28, Acts 5:30-31, Acts 13:27-29

Luke 1:68, Luke 2:38; Ps 130:8; Isa 59:20; Acts 1:6; 1Pet 1:18-19; Rev 5:9