Luke 24:13

Luke 24:13 e`xh,konta {B}

The variant reading e`kato.n e`xh,konta (a K* Q P syr^pal arm) seems to have arisen in connection with patristic identification of Emmaus with ‘Amwâs (mod. Nicopolis), about twenty-two Roman miles (176 stadia) from Jerusalem (thus Eusebius, Jerome, Sozomen, though they do not mention the distance). This, however, is too far for the travelers to have re-traversed that same evening (ver. Luke 24:33). The “seven” of it^e is undoubtedly due to a scribal blunder.