Road to Emmaus appearance

thumb|upright=1.2|Dinner at Emmaus (Rembrandt, 1648) According to the Gospel of Luke, the road to Emmaus appearance is one of the early post-resurrection appearances of Jesus after his crucifixion and the discovery of the empty tomb. Both the meeting on the road to Emmaus and the subsequent supper at Emmaus, depicting the meal that Jesus had with two disciples after the encounter on the road, have been popular subjects in art. Quotes about Bible After that, He appeared in another form to two of them as they walked and went into the country. And they went and told it to the rest, but they did not believe them either. Gospel of Mark 16:12-13 NKJV. Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. 16 But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him. Gospel of Luke 24:13-16 NKJV. Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther. But they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.” And He went in to stay with them. Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight. And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” Gospel of Luke 24:25-32 NKJV. Others Who among us is unfamiliar with the inn at Emmaus? Who has not walked that road, one evening when all seemed lost? Christ had died within us. They had taken him from us: the world, the philosophers and scientists, our passion. There was no longer any Jesus for us on earth. We were following a road, and someone came alongside us. We were alone and not alone. It was evening. Here was an open door, the darkness of a room where the flame of the fireplace lit only the floor and made the shadows flicker. O broken bread! O portion of bread consumed despite so much misery! “Stay with us, for the day is drawing to a close...”. The day is drawing to a close, life is ending. Childhood seems further away than the beginning of the world; and of our lost youth we hear nothing more than the last murmur of the dead trees in the unrecognisable park. When they reached the village where they were headed, he pretended to want to go further. But they urged him, saying, ‘Stay with us, for it is getting late and the day is drawing to a close.’ He entered the village to stay with them. And when he sat down at table with them, he took bread, and after giving thanks, he broke it and distributed it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognised him. François Mauriac, Vita di Gesù, Mondadori, Milano, 1950, p. 156; quoted in Gianfranco Ravasi, La Settimana Santa. Piccolo breviario di letteratura liturgica, introduction and selection of texts by Marco Ballarini, (supplement n°.1 to the weekly Famiglia cristiana), Periodici San Paolo, Milano, 2005, pp. 150-151 After the supper with Him, the disciples of Emmaus, leaving behind their sadness and confusion, ran back to the newly born Christian community to proclaim the joyful news of their having seen the Risen Lord. Pope John Paul II, Homily for the Beatification of Six Servants of God, 14 April 2002. The wayfarer who does not reveal himself and hides himself, but who nevertheless disturbs us... It is beautiful, but I think that any discussion of it spoils it. It is too indescribable: the supper was then depicted in paintings, and we see it in our minds, but even more evocative is the walk at sunset. It is the posthumous episode that touches me most, when Christ enters the house of the apostles, where there is none of the indescribable divinity of the travelling companion of Emmaus. The divinity that you do not recognise, but sense. Mario Luzi, La porta del cielo. Conversazioni sul cristianesimo, Stefano Verdino (editor), Fabbri Editori, R.C.S., I Classici dello Spirito, Milano, 1998, p. 94 (in Italian). See also Clopas Resurrection of Jesus External links Supper at Emmaus Category:Episodes of the life of Jesus