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.

And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.

Luke 24:13-15

 

This was one of those, "Oh-look-there's-a-sign-that-says-'______'-can-we-stop-here-for-a-minute?" requests that my patient husband is so familiar with. 

I can't remember where we were headed and I was only able to take a few pictures and look at the ruins from afar. But that is okay, since this proposed location for the biblical city of Emmaus is only hypothetical. No one knows for sure where Emmaus was and the ruins here are of a Byzantine-era basilica. 

Regardless, for a few brief moments my heart pounded. Whether it was here or a few miles away, Jesus appeared to two sad disciples after His resurrection. In Emmaus Jesus "opened the eyes" of these two disciples and they realized that it was their resurrected Lord that had been talking with them. 

"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 returned to Jerusalem and told the eleven disciples that Jesus had appeared to them. While they were talking, Jesus again appeared. 

Luke 24 is an amazing passage which chronicles the glory of the resurrected Christ.