Luke 24:18 — Community Reflections

LUKE 24:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 1 0

“And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?”

One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days? — Cleopas: one of the two named, the other unnamed (possibly his wife, the Mary of Clopas mentioned in John 19:25, or a male companion). The question communicates the enormity of the events — how can anyone in Jerusalem not know?

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