Luke 24:28 Commentary and Bible Study

Cleopas and his companion are full of wonder at this stranger walking with them. Far from being upset at being reproved as foolish for their failure to understand Calvary and the resurrection, they are full of joy and welcome his words. It is their joy to admit how wrong they have been and to embrace a new understanding of recent events.As they approached Emmaus, they no doubt explained this was where they lived. The Lord Jesus, knowing all that would follow, behaved as if he was not stopping and intended to continue beyond the village. He did this to give them the opportunity to press their hospitality upon him. They must overcome his apparent reluctance to stop and compel him to come in. It was a test of their zeal to care for a stranger, and he allowed himself to be prevailed upon. But what a wonderful stranger this was. How could they let him go further, when they so valued his presence with them, and he had taught them so clearly, and shown them such wonderful truths from the Scriptures? They wanted to hear more of his amazing understanding of Scripture. As yet they had not discerned who he was, but they certainly valued him as one who spoke with tremendous clarity and authority, and they did not doubt for a moment that what he had taught them from the Scriptures was entirely correct. Their own understanding was so defective, but here was one who had convinced them of their error, and they could not have been more glad.