Luke 24:13

ἑξήκοντα. א reads ἑκατὸν καὶ ἑξήκοντα. See note.

13. δύο ἐξ αὐτῶν. See Mark 16:12-13. It is expressly implied in Luke 24:33 that they were not Apostles. One was Cleopas (an abbreviation of Cleopatros), of whom we know nothing, for the name is not the same as Clopas (= Alphaeus or Chalpai, John 19:25), though they may have been the same person (see on Luke 6:14; Luke 6:8). The other is unknown, and unconjecturable. There is no shadow of probability that it was St Luke himself (Theophylact).

ἀπέχουσαν σταδίους ἑξήκοντα. The “about” of the A. V[415] has nothing to sanction it in the text. The distance (6½ miles) shews that Emmaus could not have been the Emmaus of 1Ma 3:40; 1Ma 9:50, &c. (Amwâs or Nicopolis), which is 176 furlongs from Jerusalem (Jos. B. J. II. 20, § 4), or the Galilaean Emmaus or “Hot Springs” (Jos. B. J. IV. 1, § 3, VII. 6, § 6). It may be the Emmaus of Jos. B. J. VII. 6, § 6 (Kulonieh), which according to one reading was 60 furlongs from Jerusalem. Had the Emmaus been 160 furlongs distant (as in the reading of אIKN, &c.) they could not have returned the same evening to Jerusalem. In the Talmud (Succah, IV. 5) we are told that Maüza (with the article Hamaüza) was the place where the palms were gathered for the feast of Tabernacles; and elsewhere that Maüza was Kulonieh.

[415] A. V. Authorised Version.