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The Road to Emmaus: Coming to KNOW Jesus, The Way, The Truth and The Life

In Luke 24:13-35, we are confronted with a most interesting and (on the surface) a rather strange account, where two of Jesus’ disciples (one of whom is named Cleopas*) did not recognize Jesus (following Jesus’ Resurrection that very morning) when He met them along their journey on the Road to Emmaus.  Jesus’ Identity was initially withheld from those disciples. They did not recognize or know Jesus!

The Road to Emmaus is a Metaphor

Let us stop for a moment and ask, Why was Jesus’ Identity withheld from the two disciples? Could not Jesus have just appeared to them plainly, and simply announced to them that He was bodily back from the dead? The answer is NO, because God wanted to share with the two disciples, and every believer who would ever later hear of this account, an important spiritual lesson, which has been perfectly crafted and recorded in the Bible within this short historical vignette which also serves as another Historical Parable containing important Spiritual Truth.

The lesson of the road to Emmaus historical account is that it is actually a “metaphor” for the fact that the entire Old Testament (the only Holy Scriptures the disciples were familiar with at that time) was a closed book to them! The two disciples could not “see” that the scriptures as they knew them (the Tanakh) were, in reality, ALL about Jesus, and about Jesus’ having fulfilled the promises to which they pointed. This fact was entirely “hidden” from them until Jesus revealed Himself from the Old Testament, as we read later in Luke 24:27, “And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.“ Only Jesus, Who in Luke 24:30, could take “the bread“, whereupon He “blessed [it], and brake, and gave to them“…and, only afterward, in Luke 24:31, were “their eyes were opened, and they knew him;…”

Within the Holy Scriptures, the Bible, “God, Who is Jesus, reveals Himself, not merely information about Himself, but HIMSELF.” Jesus Is The Key of Knowledge for Unlocking the Mystery of the Bible.

The Road to Emmaus account proves the succinctly stated old adage: “The Old Testament is the New Testament CONCEALED, and the New Testament is the Old Testament REVEALED…and the whole Bible is really only all about Jesus Christ and God’s Magnificent Salvation Plan through Him!  (It has also been said, correctly, that “the Old Testament is the New Testament CONTAINED and the New Testament is the Old Testament EXPLAINED.”)

And let us never forget that only Jesus can open the Book (the scriptures as found in the Bible) to reveal Himself to His Chosen. This point is explained in this study of Luke 4:16&17 in “Jesus Opens the Book, Jesus Closes the Book“. It is also worth reviewing, “Searching the Bible for Hid Treasures“.

So let us take a closer look at this very important and most significant true historical account, as God presents it to us, to more clearly understand the finer spiritual details contained therein.

The Road to Emmaus Account

Beginning In Luke 24:13& 14, we read where two of Jesus’ disciples were walking and talking together about the recent events (Jesus’ crucifixion on Friday, and His body being found to be missing on the morning of that very same Sunday morning (the first Easter morning) when the disciples were heading (evidently downhill, from Jerusalem) to Emmaus,

“And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem [about] threescore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened.”

A few things to note here.  The two disciples were on their way to the village of Emmaus. Emmaus is derived from the Hebrew word that variously means “hot springs/warm springs” or “mule” (a rebellious animal). Moreover, “threescore” is sixty, which contains the number “six”, which we know is associated with mankind having been created on the “sixth” day, as well as man’s works, which only lead to Hell. So in this given setting, the disciples, prior to “knowing Jesus”, were being established by God in this recorded account in the Bible to represent/typify all of mankind, who apart from Divine intervention, would otherwise remain in sin darkened blindness, traveling together downhill on the road to perdition.

The Good News is that, as we will learn more below, Jesus met them along the way and, because of the intervention by Jesus, their eyes were opened and they KNEW Him, indicating that they were among God’s Elect, and therefore also representative of all who are to be saved through the faith and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ!   

In Luke 24:15, we next read that, “And it came to pass, that, while they communed [together] and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.” 

As we noted previously in the study of the Book of Ruth, when the Bible says that “it came to pass”, it is almost always alerting us to the fact that something significant is about to unfold. The significant event developed while the two disciples were communing together and reasoning together on the road to Emmaus.  The word “reasoning” is translated from the Greek word, συζητέω syzētéō ^G4802, which means to “enquire”, “question”, “discuss”, “dispute”, and it is not unlike what we read in the Old Testament in the translation from Hebrew of Isaiah 1:18, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” We also know, from Amos 3:3, “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?”

Their eyes were holden (closed)

In Luke 24:16, we read where even though Jesus drew near to them and joined with the two disciples on that road, we read in “But their eyes were holden (closed) that they should not know him.” They did not have “the eyes to see” that it was Jesus, and, therefore, they were supernaturally prevented from knowing Him. [For more on “eyes to see”, please see the-hearing-ear-and-the-seeing-eye/].

And note the words “that they should not know him“. This is integral to understanding the fact that apart from God’s direct intervention to open someone’s spiritual eyes, then he or she “should not”, and will not, know Jesus as Lord God and Savior. This more evidence of Divine Election.

However, a bit later we read in Luke 24:27, “And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.”  Later on, in verse Luke 24:31, we read, “And their eyes were opened^G1272, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. ¶And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened^G1272 to us the scriptures?“

Note also that in Psalm 99:6, we read again of “The Law and the Prophets” with the Law being represented by Moses and Aaron, and the Prophets being represented by Samuel: “Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.“

We see this repeated again later in Luke 24:44&45: “And He (Jesus) said unto them, These [are] the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and [in] the prophets, and [in] the psalms, concerning me.  Then opened^G1272, he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,”  

The word “opened” is from the Greek word, διανοίγω (dianoigō) ^G1272, which means to “open thoroughly” (what had been closed), such as a womb after a birth (such that what is once opened cannot be closed again). No one can “understand the scriptures” if his or her eyes are not “opened” by God to see that Jesus is the Fulfillment of all the Old Testament scriptures.

In John 1:45 we read where, “Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” 

This point is reiterated in Acts 3:18, “But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.”   Also in Acts 10:43, we read where the Apostle Peter declared, “To him (Jesus Christ) give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.” 

And again in Acts 28:23, where Paul gave the same testimony, “And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into [his] lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and [out of] the prophets, from morning till evening.“

Finally, in Romans 1:1-3, we read, “Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord…“

We can see, therefore, that effectively the entire Bible has been precisely crafted by God, by His Holy Spirit, into one cohesive, consistent whole, from beginning to end and was written as a “parable,” in that only if God has given the reader “eyes to see” can the Bible truly be understood and applied to his heart, otherwise the Word remains hidden to that individual. This is why we are told in Matthew 13:34 that Jesus always spoke in Parables. (Please see Why Did Jesus Speak in Parables?)

Without having been given the “ears to hear, there is no other way to truly “hear” Jesus (see Matthew 17:5).  Because this is so, we can also see how it should be possible to “see” the Lord Jesus Christ (He Is both The Word and Wisdom) on each and every page, whether it be in the New, or Old, Testament.  In I Corinthians 13:12, we read, “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.“

It would appear that God’s intent was to initiate a discussion between Jesus and the two disciples to create an account that provides the believer with insights on how God intervenes in a believer’s life to lead him or her into truth from the scriptures. At the outset, the disciples were “blind” with respect to “seeing” and “knowing” Jesus from the Old Testament scriptures.

Proverbs 20:12 “The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them. God must give the person the spiritual eyesight to see Jesus in the Old Testament. For a detailed exposition on the meaning of Proverbs 20:12, Please see also this exposition: The Hearing Ear, and the Seeing Eye.

Psalms 119:18, “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” Jesus is the “wondrous” thing to behold in the law (the scriptures of the Bible).

And with the new life comes understanding: Psalm 119:144, “The righteousness of thy testimonies [is] everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.”

Luke 24:17, “And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?”

Jesus enquired of the disciples to explain their bewilderment and the associated sorrow it was causing.

Luke 24:18, “And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas*, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?”

The disciples were astonished that this person could not be aware of what had just happened in Jerusalem and therefore wondered if he was a stranger.

*Cleopas (G2810 Κλεοπᾶς , meaning “of a renowned father”) may or may not be the same person as Jesus’ named uncle on Jesus’ mother’s, Mary’s, side, Cleophas (G2832 Κλωπᾶς, meaning “my exchanges”). John 19:25, “¶Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the [wife] of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.” At a minimum, we can say that, based on Luke 24:18, regarding the disciple, Cleopas, walking with Jesus on the Road to Emmaus, was representative of all of the children of God (God Being their Renowned Father in Heaven).

Luke 24:19, “And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:“

Luke 24:20-22, “And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.“

The disciples believed that Jesus was the Messiah, the Redeemer of National Israel, but yet instead of “saving” them, Jesus was put to death by cruxifixction! The disciples’ faith and understanding was entirely carnally focused, and not spiritually focused, and, as a result, they were looking for an earthly savior, and earthly king like king David, a “political” savior/redeemer, because they did not understand that Jesus Is the Eternal Spiritual Sacrificial Lamb of God, and the Son of God, Who came to save the eternal Israel from all sin. They did not know Jesus as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.

But the disciples were also baffled because they also wondered that perhaps Jesus could have been resurrected from the dead on that very morning, Resurrection Sunday (Easter) morning, because of what these disciples report next, but it is clear that they still were doubting and did indeed not understand the meaning of it all (they could not understand that Jesus had vanquished sin and death in fulfillment of the Scriptures!).

Luke 24:22-24, “Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found [it] even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.“

The tomb was empty, Jesus’ Body was not there.

According to Luke 24:10, “It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary [the mother] of James, and other [women that were] with them, which told these things unto the apostles.” Salome was another of the other women, as we read in Mark 16:1, “¶And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the [mother] of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.” They were the ones who told the apostles what had happened, but, according to Luke 24:11, “their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.“

John 20:1-10 provides the most detail regarding the reaction of Peter and John, who ran to the sepulchre and also found the tomb empty along with the burial cloths. Notably, we read in John 20:8&9, that “Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.” They saw and believed that the tomb was empty and Jesus’ Body was gone, but nothing more than that.

Jesus Called the Disciples “Fools”

Luke 24:25, ”Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:”

Jesus was rebuking the disciples, in calling them “fools“, which is translated from the Greek, ἀνόητος (anoētos) ^G453 , which meant that they were unwise and lacked understanding (of heart to believe) all of the scriptures and prophets pointed to Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. They simply had NO “spiritual understanding” of what had just taken place.

Apart from the direct intervention of God, everyone in the world is exactly the same as these disciples. Before Jesus opened their eyes to know Him, they represented all of mankind, both in and out of the corporate church, who could not know Jesus apart from His Divine intervention. Proverbs 15:21, “Folly [is] joy to [him that is] destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly“. Note that his two disciples were heading away from Jerusalem down to a town that can be likened to hell and were unaware and perplexed. Proverbs 19:3, “The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.”

We are all, by nature, such “fools”, and therefore “unwise”, and we all by nature “lack understanding” to know the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ and to KNOW HIM as The Savior… unless and until the Holy Spirit of God is sent to us to open our spiritual eyes and ears to understand the scriptures. We must also remember that the two disciples’ encounter with Jesus on the Road to Emmaus was prior to Jesus’ Ascension, and BEFORE the Holy Spirit was poured out at Pentecost. The Holy Spirit is required to “quicken” the believer, which means to “make alive”, also known as the new birth in the Spirit. Only when that happens, will a person have “understanding” and clearly “see” Jesus with new “spiritual eyes“, and “hear” with our spiritual ears, and become His true disciples.

The Comforter, The Holy Spirit, The Spirit of Truth

Remember that Jesus said, in John 14:15&16, “¶And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:” …And…

John 14:26, “But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” …And…

John 14:16&17, “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; [Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

John 15:26, “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

John 16:13, “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

1 John 4:6, “We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.”

1 John 5:6, “This is he that came by water and blood, [even] Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.“

Luke 24:26, “Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?”

Isaiah 53:1-12 makes this clear, but so do many other scriptures as is indicated next with Jesus expositions of the scriptures.

Luke 24:27, “And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.”

It is worth repeating once again that, later in verses 44& 45, “And He (Jesus) said unto them, These [are] the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and [in] the prophets, and [in] the psalms, concerning me.  Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,”   This point is reiterated in Acts 3:18, “But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.”   Again in Acts 10:43, we read where the Apostle Peter declared, “To him (Jesus Christ) give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.”  In John 1:45 we read where, “Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”  Finally, in Romans 1:1-3, we read, “Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord…” And finally, remember that Jesus said in Matthew 5:17 , “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” Jesus Is the fulfillment of all the Old Testament scriptures!

Luke 24:28 & 29, “And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.” But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.”

Abide is from the Greek word, μένω (menō) ^G3306, which means to “dwell” or “sojourn”, and the word “tarry” is the same Greek word. We want to be like Jacob at “Peniel” (“the face of God”) in Genesis 32:26-30 where Jacob was named Israel by God and where Jacob would not let God go without first receiving God’s blessing.

Jesus is the Bread of Life, He was broken for the believers, and Jesus imparts it to the believers to open their eyes to KNOW Him (out of the Old Testament). 

Luke 24:30&31, “And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.”  

Note the introduction again, “And it came to pass“! This was not just “happenstance”.

Note how well this account meshes with Luke 24:35, “And they told what things [were done] in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.”

The key point so clear here is that Jesus has to “break the bread” for the believers.  Jesus also has to first “bless the bread” for the believers. Jesus has to give the bread to the believers. Hallelujah!

We know that Jesus is the “The Bread of Life” according to John 6:35 “And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.” And in Jhn 6:48 Jesus said, “I am that bread of life.”  

Moreover, Jesus Himself had to be broken, remember where the communion was instituted at the Last (Passover) Supper, Jesus gave the disciples pieces of broken bread and said according to Matthew 26:26, “¶“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed [it] and brake [it], and gave [it] to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.”

In Luke 22:19, “¶we read, “And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake [it], and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.”

In 1 Corinthians 11:23& 24 we get some further important elaboration from God via Paul, “For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.” 

“Their Eyes Were Opened, and They Knew Him“

So Jesus was saying that He is that Bread of Life that was broken for the believers, and given for them as a substitutionary atoning sacrifice, and that they must eat in remembrance of Him.  And when the two disciples received the bread from Jesus in the Road to Emmaus account, “their eyes were opened and they knew Him.” The two disciples recognized Jesus for Who He Is, and they KNEW Him!  

Remembering in John 1:14 that Jesus is the Word made flesh, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” Therefore, when Jesus had opened up the Word of God unto the disciples, “beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself” Jesus was revealing Himself, symbolized by that broken bread, as their Lord God and Savior and they had their spiritual eyes opened to see Him!  

And is not this entirely consistent with what Jesus said in both Matthew 11:27, “All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and [he] to whomsoever the Son will reveal [him].” and Luke 10:22, “All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and [he] to whom the Son will reveal [him].“

Back to The Garden of Eden: We should also stop to think where we had read similar wording in the scriptures before. Looking back at Genesis 3:1-7, we read of the account where the devil, in the form of a serpent, deceived Eve into eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to become “as gods“, which Eve saw that the tree could “make [one] wise“. Immediately following this act of disobedience in this eating, the eyes of Adam and Eve were opened, but all they knew was that they were naked (in their sin). “¶Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? ¶And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. ¶And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. ¶And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.” They ate, and their “eyes were opened” and “they KNEW“. They tried to become “wise” and “as gods” by deceit rather than by The Way, Who Is Jesus. Shortly thereafter we see that their own attempt at covering the nakedness of their exposed sin was insufficient (see also Job 31:33, Proverbs 28:13, and Psalm 32:5) and so instead, God had to take action to adequately cover them in Genesis 3:21, “¶Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.”

The lesson that God is providing here is that it is only by the Grace of God, through the Person and Intercessory Work of the Lord Jesus Christ, by which a person can become “wise” and have their eyes opened to know 1) that they are naked in their sins and 2) that those sins can only be covered by the Robes of Christ’s Righteousness. They must “KNOW Him“! Remember that the “animal skins” is a teaching allegory from God, because it meant that an animal had to die, and blood had to be shed, to create that necessary covering. Jesus Christ, as “the Lamb of God”, had to die and His blood had to be shed in order to provide the only means to cover a person’s sin nakedness. And God did not just hand over the skins to Adam and Eve to put them on, rather God “clothed them”. It was all God’s action ALONE.

Jesus has to reveal Himself to us out of the Scriptures!

We should remember what we are told in Romans 10:17, “So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.“

And, as we read further, although Jesus immediately vanished out of the “physical” sight of the disciples, Jesus remained in the “spiritual” sight of the disciples and the following was the result…

Luke 24:32, “And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?”

They recounted how their hearts burned within them!  It is reminiscent of what we read in Jeremiah 20:9, where Jeremiah was wishing to, but unable to, withhold the condemning Word of God that Jeremiah was instructed to say, “Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay“.

Every believer should have exact same feeling when Jesus Christ is expounded out Moses (the first five books of the Bible), and all the prophets and all the scriptures! Jesus is the essence and fulfillment of all the Old Testament scriptures, just as Jesus said in John 5:39, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” It cannot get any more plain than that! This Bereansearching Blog (https://bereansearching.com) is dedicated to this exact same purpose.

The account describes two disciples who were on a path away from the Holy City who did not see that Jesus had to fulfill the requirements of the Old Testament sacrificial laws…that He had to be both the Lamb of God and the office of the High Priest that offers up that Sacrifice, the Kinsman Redeemer (as in Ruth), the Saviour in Psalms, the Fulfillment of the Types of the Great men of faith as listed by example in Hebrews 11:32. But once Jesus expounded and opened up to them out of all the scriptures concerning Himself, they understood that something new and amazing was going on. They begged for Jesus to dwell with them and then, when Jesus broke the bread for them, they suddenly “knew” Him.

The two disciples’ encounter with the Resurrected Jesus is also referenced in Mark 16:12&13, “¶After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country. And they went and told [it] unto the residue: neither believed they them.“

Jesus Follows-Up Immediately Thereafter with the Other Disciples

(Matthew 28:16–20; Luke 24:44–49; Acts 1:6–8 )

The two disciples went back to Jerusalem that same hour to the eleven remaining disciples to tell them what had just taken place and then we read how Jesus similarly opens the understanding (of the assembled eleven remaining disciples) to the Old Testament scriptures concerning Himself:

Luke 24:33-36, “And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. And they told what things [were done] in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread. ¶ And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace [be] unto you.” And then after showing He had risen from the dead, and was not a spirit as they supposed, He ate some broiled fish and honeycomb in front of them and then in Luke 24:44-49, we see Jesus opening their understanding to the Old Testament scriptures, “And he said unto them, These [are] the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and [in] the prophets, and [in] the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, ¶And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.” The Gift of the Holy Spirit being promised by Jesus, which was fulfilled on Pentecost 33AD.

Mar 16:14, “¶Afterward he (Jesus Christ) appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.“

Conclusion

The essence and meaning of the Road to Emmaus…the Key to Unlocking the Mystery of the Bible…is that the entire Bible (both the Old Testament, and New Testaments) is entirely about The Person and Work of the LORD Jesus Christ to bring salvation to sinners!

Moreover, unless God “breaks the bread” by opening the Bible to us, and revealing Himself to us, out the law of Moses, the prophets, and in the psalms, and the whole rest of the Bible concerning Jesus, then the reader will remain in complete ignorance of the Truth!

Remember what we find in Hebrews 10:7, where God explains Psalm 40:7,“Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me“, as saying that the book (the Bible) is talking about Jesus Christ, “Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.” The “me” in all the above is unequivocally referring only to Jesus Christ!

Finally dear reader, please give heed the words of the Apostle Paul to Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:13, (which are the words of God to all believers), “Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.“ Jesus is coming back again soon! (and the next time as Judge of all the Earth!) and 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18, “¶For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (go before) them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.“

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