3183.— Eating at Emmaus
By Editor
Will you kindly answer in the SIGNS what is your authority for the statement in Question 3132, lines twelve to fifteen? P. M. P. The statement is a mere general one. Jesus was evidently with the disciples while they prepared their meal, for they constrained Him to come in; and He may have vanished at the very beginning of the meal, but we hardly believe with our inquirer that they returned supperless to Jerusalem. We read that they rose up the same hour and returned to Jerusalem. There is nothing in the context which would absolutely forbid His eating with them. Their eyes were opened when He broke bread. How long He stayed of course we do not know. It does not say that He immediately vanished out of their sight. He may have remained with them for a little time. That is uncertain. The uncertainty perhaps ought to have been expressed in the answer to the question.