The Road to Emmaus
April 30, 2017
Texts:
Luke 24: 13-35
Acts 2: 4a, 36-41
Luke, a Gentile, is sharing his account of Jesus’ life and death and has just described how the women had seen the tomb with the stone rolled away and two men with clothes that gleamed like lightening were there and told them that Jesus had risen. When they faithfully return to the apostles and tell them what they have seen and heard, in typical sexist perspective of men at that time, the men do not believe the women. “Their words seemed to them like nonsense.” Peter who must have wondered if it was a possibility that Jesus was raised from the dead, runs to the tomb but only sees the cloths rolled up that had wrapped Jesus’ body. Does his lack of faith cause him to not see any messengers or hear what has happened to Jesus, as the women had? He has to wonder what has happened.