Luke 24:13

The Disciples at Emmaus.

13. two of them 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 nameis not the same as Clopas (=Alphaeus or Chalpai, John 19:25), though they m ayhave been the same person (see on Luke 6:15). The other is unknown, and unconjecturable. There is no shadow of probability that it was St Luke himself (Theophylact). This exquisite narrative is given by St Luke alone, though mentionedin Mark 16:12-13.

went Rather, were going.

a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs Omit "about,"which has nothing to sanction it in the text. The distance (6 1/2 miles) shews that Emmaus could not have been the Emmaus of 1Ma 3:40; 1Ma 9:50, &c. (Amwas or Nicopolis), which is 176 furlongs (22 miles) 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 (KuloniehSuccah, iv. 5), which according to one reading was 60 furlongs from Jerusalem. Had the Emmaus been 160 furlongs distant (as in the reading of א, I, K, N, &c.) they could not have returned the same evening to Jerusalem.