Luke 24:19 (WEB)
He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
Catechism · 3
The Liturgy - Work of the Holy Trinity
“It is on this harmony of the two Testaments that the Paschal catechesis of the Lord is built,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. DV 14-16; Lk 24:13-49.
The Sacrament of the Eucharist
“It is by this action that his disciples will recognize him after his Resurrection,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 24:13-35.
“Walking with them he explained the Scriptures to them; sitting with them at table "he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them."” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 24:13-35.
Fathers and councils · 23
Augustine of Hippo
“And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women said; but Him they saw not.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 13–24.
Read the whole comment“Even as ye have just heard concerning the two disciples whom He met with in the way, how “their eyes were holden that they should not know Him:” and He found them despairing of the redemption that was in Christ, and deeming that now He had suffered and was dead as a man, not accounting that as Son of…” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 13–28.
Read the whole comment“…mighty in deeds and in words, that had been slain by the chief priests; “And we,” say they, “did hope that it was He that should have redeemed Israel.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 13–21.
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Tertullian
“…a walk, and when the Lord had joined their company, without its appearing that it was He, and whilst He dissembled His knowledge of what had just taken place, they say: “But we trusted that it had been He which should have redeemed Israel,”—meaning their own, that is, the Creator’s Christ.” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 13–19.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Glossa OrdinariaCatena Aurea on Luke
After the manifestation of Christ’s resurrection made by the Angels to the women, the same resurrection is further manifested by an appearance of Christ Himself to His disciples; as it is said, And behold two of them.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Some say that Luke was one of these two, and for this reason concealed his name.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Or to two of the disciples by themselves our Lord shewed Himself in the evening, namely, Ammaon and Cleophas.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
The fortress mentioned here we may not unreasonably take to have been also called according to Mark, a village, He next describes the fortress, saying, which was from Jerusalem about the space of sixty stades, called…
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It is the same as Nicopolis, a remarkable town in Palestine, which after the taking of Judæa under the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius, changed together with its condition its name also. But the stadium which, as…
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But the disciples above mentioned talked to one another of the things which had happened, not as believing them, but as bewildered at events so extraordinary.
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
And as they spoke of Him, the Lord comes near and joins them, that He may both influence their minds with faith in His resurrection, and fulfil that which He had promised, Where two or three are gathered together in…
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For having now obtained a spiritual body, distance of place is no obstacle to His being present to whom He wished, nor did He any further govern His body by natural laws, but spiritually and supernaturally. Hence as…
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Rightly also He refrained from manifesting to them a form which they might recognise, doing that outwardly in the eyes of the body, which was done by themselves inwardly in the eyes of the mind. For they in…
Read the whole comment - A Greek expositorCatena Aurea on Luke
They were in truth discoursing among themselves, no longer expecting to see Christ alive, but sorrowing as concerning their Saviour slain. Hence it follows, And one of them whose name was Cleophas, answering him…
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As if he said, “Art thou a mere stranger, and one dwelling beyond the confines of Jerusalem, and therefore unacquainted with what has happened in the midst of it, that thou knowest not these things?
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Or he says this, because they thought Him a stranger, whose countenance they did not recognise. But in reality He was a stranger to them, from the infirmity of whose natures, now that He had obtained the glory of the…
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First comes deed, then word; for no word of teaching is approved unless first he who teaches shews himself to be a doer thereof. For acting goes before sight; for unless by thy works thou hast cleansed the glass of…
Read the whole comment - A Greek expositorCatena Aurea on Luke
They next assign the cause of their sadness, the betrayal and passion of Christ; and add in the voice of despair, But we hoped it had been he who should have redeemed Israel. We hoped, (he says,) not we hope; as if…
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For they expected that Christ would redeem Israel from the evils that were rising up among them and the Roman slavery. They trusted also that He was an earthly king, whom they thought would be able to escape the…
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Reason had they then for sorrow, because in some sort they blamed themselves for having hoped redemption in Him whom now they saw dead, and believed not that He would rise again, and most of all they bewailed Him put…
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And yet those men seem not to have been altogether without faith, by what follows, And besides all this, to day is the third day since these things were done. Whereby they seem to have a recollection of what the Lord…
Read the whole comment - A Greek expositorCatena Aurea on Luke
The disciples also mention the report of the resurrection which was brought by the women; adding, Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, &c. They say this indeed as if they did not believe it;…
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But since Luke has said that Peter ran to the sepulchre, and has himself related the words of Cleophas, that some of them went to the sepulchre, he is understood to confirm the testimony of John, that two went to the…
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Bede on Luke 24:13–24 (2) (Catena Aurea).