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Apr 28, 2017 · If Cleopas’s wife, Mary, was in Jerusalem for Passover, it makes sense that she would have traveled back home to Emmaus (or stopped overnight in Emmaus en route to home) with her husband afterward.
Apr 11, 2021 · Today’s passage, Luke 24:13-35, offers a glimpse of Jesus and his disciples after that first Easter. The story begins with two of Jesus’ followers on the road between Jerusalem and Emmaus. One is named Cleopas; the other is not named, and might be Cleopas’ wife.
Jan 19, 2022 · It suggests the “other disciple” was Cleopas’ wife, Jesus’ aunt! As their destination came in sight, the two invited the stranger into their home to share a meal — and it was only at the ...
Dean Plumptre suggests that this may in part, perhaps, account for this Cleopas, not improbably a Jew of Alexandria, imparting to St. Luke what had not found its way into the current oral teaching of the Hebrew Church at Jerusalem, as embodied in the narratives of SS. Matthew and Mark.
May 29, 2021 · Mary Magdalene wailing, Peter groaning out loud every five minutes and pounding his fists against his knees. But worst of all was Jesus’ mother Mary just sitting motionless, holding her sides, staring into space, almost as if she was waiting for something.
Apr 23, 2019 · The two pilgrims, of course, didn’t know it was Easter Sunday–they were just headed seven miles home after celebrating Passover in Jerusalem. Cleopas is named as one of the pilgrims. Since “Mary, the wife of Cleopas,” stood with Jesus’ mother at the foot of the cross on Good Friday, she may have been the other disciple on the road.
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Cleopas assumes Jesus is a visitor to Jerusalem because in that moment most people in the area were travelers. Friday was Passover. Saturday was the Sabbath and the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is a holiday Sabbath.
