Luke 24:13-35 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about three score furlongs.… I. THE WAY. 1. To these two disciples that was the way of sadness and gloom. 2. The sadness of those two disciples sprang from doubt or unbelief. 3. Though that was the way of sadness and doubt to those two disciples, yet they communed and reasoned together on the best themes. II. THE METHOD OF CHRIST'S COMMUNICATIONS BY THE WAY. "He talked with us," "and opened to us the Scriptures." The manner was simple, clear, and cogent. Two or three things about Christ's method of communing with these disciples are worth a little attention. 1. It was sympathetic. He strikes a chord in their troubled hearts that vibrates at the touch of His matchless sympathy. 2. It was instructive. Seek instruction rather than rapture. 3. This talk by the way was animating. Not only did it relieve their gloom and sadness, it cheered, revived, and filled them with ardent icy, "for they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us by the way?" III. THE REST AND THE REVELATION WHICH AWAITED THE DISCIPLES AT THE END OF THE WAY. 1. A triumphant joy. 2. An intelligent faith in Him as the Redeemer of Israel. 3. The disclosure of Christ to those two disciples filled their hearts with confident hope. (J. T. Higgins.) Parallel Verses KJV: And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. |
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