Luke 24:17. What communications? Some earnest disputing is meant, though no blame is implied. This implies also that He walked with them for a time before He thus spoke.

And they stood still, looking sad. This is the reading now generally accepted. It suggests that the interruption was unwelcome, as does the response of Cleopas (Luke 24:18). The other reading may be taken as two questions: ‘as ye walk? and why are ye sad?' or rendered as in the E. V. A briefer reading gives: ‘as ye walk (being) sad?'

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Old Testament