How We Recognize Jesus | Luke
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- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2023
- Several of the Easter stories contain the hint that the disciples don’t quite recognize Jesus right away. In the story of the dinner at Emmaus, Luke provides us with the new way by which we recognize Jesus, the breaking of the bread among believers, and the warming of our hearts at the unfolding of the scriptures.
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Never saw the connection between … their eyes opened.. in Luke and Genesis! Never saw the healing !!!!’
Thank you ! God bless you!
Jesus NEVER leaves anything undone. Thank you Lord
He’s the Tree of life. When they eat, their eyes are opened. Thank you for showing us this connection! Delicious unfolding!
I had never seen before how their eyes being opened mirrored the Genesis story of Eden. I love the way God threads through the scriptures links, clues, little things to tease us and draw us in, ever closer to Him. All of our journeys are different and nowhere is this more evident than in the aftermath of the resurrection. Mary, the other women, Peter, John, the two on the road to Emmaus, Thomas the all have different stories to tell which either resonate with us or enlighten us. Thank you.
Thank you so much. This is my favorite gospel incident. When I was younger I envied those who'd had a dramatic Damascus Road; indeed I often wondered if my faith was real because I'd not. Older, and wiser, I am ever more thankful for my less exciting, though no less heart-burning, Emmaus Road. Over and over I have been brought up short, amazed at how blind I am--even as I think I am looking right at Him, and how patiently He remonstrates my "foolishness," opening the scriptures and "explaining" yet again what I so completely missed. Listening to Scripture at my mother's knee, I remember shaking my head in wonder that during the Exodus, the Children of Israel could make such a mess of things over and over even though the Pillar of Cloud and Fire was present to lead them, or how often the disciples heard Yeshua plainly speak of things to come and yet proceed as if they'd never heard a word (how hard was it to understand what "three days" mean?!). Then I read this passage and remember, with a rueful smile, how he continues to take me in hand and remove the scales from my eyes. Surprised, embarrassed, and grateful would not be too extreme a description. Adonai bless.
Your thoughtful and humble reflections inspire introspection and a deeper look at our own hearts. Thomas also comes to.mind, and how we are prone to doubt (and wander!)
Many will likely relate to a Damascus sunrise or season who haven't experienced a more precise 'moment'. Thanks for sharing.
This is a very helpful Easter series. I am committed to my Savior and you strengthen my faith. Thank you☺️
Thank you. I love that the Genesis words are mirrored in the Luke words to bring together the important elements of the story.
God bless you and your family
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What a fabulous correlation between Genesis and Luke.
Wow! What an extra depth is added to this Luke passage going back to Gen 3. I never thought of it or made the connection but there it is. Thank you NT Wright!
You're very welcome, we are grateful to appreciate our Lord together!
Life is filled many unfoldings.
Brilliant insight! Thank you for showing the connection between Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit and having their eyes opened. I’m learning from you and the folks at The Bible Project to see the patterns that have been very intentionally built into the seamless message of the Bible. I also always appreciate the historical context you bring to scripture so that I as a 21st century American can understand what 1st century Jews would have heard when Jesus spoke and the New Testament authors wrote. God bless you sir!
Thank you for this wonderful lesson.
There is a joyous burning in the heart when Holy Spirit lifts the veil and reveals the love and sovereignty of God, that He is in control and working things for Himself and all who love and trust Him. 🙏🥹✝️
I loved this video. We get excited when Easter comes, but that is not the way the first Easter happened. They expected a dead Jesus.
Beautiful. I believe Jesus was crucified on Wednesday and raised on the Sabbath, for He is our Sabbath rest.
God, this is amazing! how it is connected, "this is a moment of cosmic healing" how this is connected, how the reversal of the curse, How the story is unfolding in Luke's gospel, a marvelous interpretation and giving the genesis story a historical account and God has reverse this historically through the death and resurrection of the son of God, curse reversal moment. the breaking of the bread opens the eye to see the savior that was inflicted by the fruit who opens the eye and show their selves,...
Every time I introduce the Lord's Supper, hold up that bread, and break it, I feel something wonderful. I pray that I am experiencing Jesus reveal himself to the members of our church again and again.
Glory to God. Thank you Sir Tom. We can say this is akin to where Apostle John tracked the creation story In Genesis @ Genesis 2:15 and pointed out to us @ John 15:20 to where Mary mistakenly took the resurrected Christ as the “Gardener”. Her eyes like Peter and the other disciple were closed for a moment. The garden was restored. The New Perfect Adam bringing the Kingdom of God to earth as it is in Heaven.
Thank you so much for the short meditation on one of my favorite Jesus stories…I am very grateful to you for helping me to not just see Jesus afresh but to feel and know his love and care for me. Simply Jesus!
Thank you so much, prof. Wright, that I may learn from your insight. Indeed you are being used by God in many lives.
Thank you for such a clear explanation
I love the comparison with Adam and Eve's eyes being opened in Genesis. Two things always struck me about the Road to Emmaus - if the two travellers had never invited Jesus in to stay, he would have carried on walking and they would never had known it was him. It reminds me of Matthew 25: 35: "For I was hungry, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in." The other thing is that whenever Jesus blesses food and breaks bread remarkable things happen.
Indeed, when Jesus was teaching his disciples about his death his gave them a meal instead of a sermon!
From eyes opened to see being exposed to eyes opened to being clothed by His robes ... I'd never made that connection. It changes how I see others, and myself. Sigh ... peace.
I wonder just what I would've done? How I long to see my Savior & LORD 🙏🏻
A magnificent reversal.
Such a beautiful teaching and so encouraging! Thank you.
I’ve benefitted from your writings on this previously. It’s so beautiful. To expand (and I can’t recall if you’ve brought all these details out in the same way), here are two disciples, Cleopas/Clopas, and possibly his wife Mary (cf. Jn 19:25). And this is also the first meal we read of in the New Creation Jesus is inaugurating. Genesis 3 is the first ‘meal’ - the first eating - of the first creation. There it is two people alone in the garden, not with Jesus but with the serpent (Satan, per Rev 12:9). The serpent, the tempter, and a couple. Deceiving them to rebel against God. Now, in the new creation, instead of the tempter deceiving, it’s Jesus and a couple - not tempting them to take what is forbidden, but rather giving them - an act of divine grace - the bread of life who is Jesus himself. Jesus bringing truth instead of deception. Love instead of hate and division. Life instead of death. So God in Jesus reverses the temptation to rebel and redeems humanity, each of us, by a gift of grace and love. To bring life (sustenance) instead of the death that the serpent (evil-pride-lust) brought to humanity. Thank you for this. And praise God.
Thoughtful insights here, Jeff. Love the reflection on the 'first meal'. There might also be a reversal of the pair having their eyes opened and then no longer hiding in shame, but the burning desire to share with others.
@@NTWrightOnline Yes. Eyes opened to Jesus and sharing the meal of grace he gives. Rather than shame and self orientation. For me, theological messages such as these serve as profound evidence in conjunction with the historical evidence of the crucifixion and resurrection.
It is hard for me to comprehend this story, because I focus on Jesus' disappearance, and think it a bit odd. It makes me wonder if the whole story is merely a metaphor. Despite all the hours I've spent listening to and reading Fr. Wright discuss modern vs. ancient worldviews, this story remains a stumbling block for me. Perhaps going forward I will try to focus on having my eyes opened instead.
It's more than a bit odd--it seems totally unbelievable really. The fact that Jesus is alive again, and in a whole new way, is probably more felt with the 'burning heart' than 'seen'. And, at the same time, doubt and wondering are a part of our human experience. We can have times of doubt and still have faith because we count on his faithfulness!
When the children of Israel grumbled in the wilderness and the first of the manna came down, they did not recognize it. They picked it up and said "what is it"? That's what "manna" means. This led to the first of the Sabbath day's rest.
In Jn 6, the elders grumbled at Jesus and did not recognize the true manna come down from heaven standing right in front of them.
The disciples were given eyes to see and ears to hear. However, they needed to fall away later to be restored. When they were restored, they fully recognized Jesus as the bread of life broken for them and yet restored unto life.
A good reminder of the human tendency to miss what's under our noses! And, of the crucial role of the Spirit who helps us discern truth (and the true bread that brings life!)
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The title is "Jacob and Esau, two nations and the inheritance". I would not ask such a man of your Biblical stature for this honor if I didn't truly believe that you will actually find yourself praising God as you read it.
In the beginning, the world, the people, became a wasteland, empty and void of understanding. After the sacrifice, Jesus needs a highway in that same wasteland of existence. Never to return to corruption (Act 13:34 NABO) He found them in that wasteland and his spirit hovered over the Abyss and shielded them as the apple of his eye. Jesus began his work of the salvation of David, the Morning Star, as the first Adam. He wields the fiery sword guarding the way to the tree of life on the day of vengeance AS judgment, setting up the abomination of desolation in him, the temple without one stone left standing upon another. He then returns, within the same generation, from this Holocaust, with the chastisements of God, the just demands of the law according to the spirit, placed on him to fulfill the way of the Lord in the desert.
The first creation story then continues with the New Heavens and New Earth. God said: "Let there be light," Thus evening came, and morning followed-- the first day. (Gen 1:3-5 NABO) The glory of God gave it light, and its lamp was the Lamb (Rev 21:23 NABO). The sun and moon created on the fourth day are the Shining One, David, the Morning Star, and his Bride. On the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall, the light of the moon will be like that of the sun and the light of the sun will be seven times greater (like the light of seven days). (Isa 30:25-26 NABO)
When the fig tree's leaves become tender and sprout leaves, you know summer is near. In the same way, when you see the abomination of desolation set up in him, the temple without one stne left standing upon another, you know that he is near. The man planted a fig tree in his garden, and for three years came looking for fruit on it. Not finding any, he was going to cut it down and remove it from the soil. He was convinced to leave it and allow it to be cultivated and fertilized. When he comes upon the fig tree, he finds only leaves on it, not fruit, and curses it. Christians have adorned it with artificial fruit.
The Messiah is portrayed as crucified. O stupid
Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? (Gal 3:1 NABO)
Are you so stupid? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? (Gal 3:3 NABO) Churches have ended with Jesus being crucified in the flesh.
I’ve never seen Isaiah 40:3 put into context with Isaiah 40:2:
Sacrifice: -Indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins. (Isa 40:2 NABO)
Resurrection: -Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God! (Isa 40:3 NABO)
Just as it is appointed that human beings die - be judged - appear a second time, (so also Christ) Heb 9:27-28.
Master of the Demon Sin:
If you do well, you can hold up your head; but if not, sin is a demon lurking at the door: his urge is toward you, yet you can be his master. (Gen 4:7 NABO) Who, robed in splendor, judges nations, crushes heads across the wide earth, Who drinks from the brook by the wayside and thus holds high the head. (Psa 110:6-7 NABO)