Luke 24:31 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 24:31

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus—and He disappeared from their sight.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.

KJV

And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.

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Commentary

1 voice

Gregory the Dialogist

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 23 (604)

Therefore, by hearing the precepts of God they were not enlightened; by doing them they were enlightened, because it is written: "Not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified." Whoever therefore wishes to understand what he has heard, let him hasten to fulfill in deed those things which he has already been able to understand. Behold, the Lord was not recognized while He was speaking, and He deigned to be recognized while He was being fed.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Or, he became not visible by them, was made inconspicuous by them. It should seem that though Christ's body, after his resurrection, was the very same body in which he suffered and died, as appeared by the marks in it, yet it was so far changed as to become either visible or not visible as he thought fit to make it, which was a step towards its being made a glorious body.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Their eyes were opened - The obscurity was removed. They saw him to be the Messiah. Their doubts were gone, and they saw clearly that he was risen, and was truly, as they had long hoped, the Saviour of people. It is not meant that they were before “blind,” but that they did not know until then who he was. He vanished out of their sight - He suddenly departed. It does not appear that there was anything miraculous in this, but, during their surprise, he took the opportunity suddenly to withdraw from them.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
αὐτῶν	autōn	Of them	G846 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
διηνοίχθησαν	diēnoichthēsan	were opened	G1272 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
ὀφθαλμοὶ	ophthalmoi	eyes	G3788 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐπέγνωσαν	epegnōsan	they knew	G1921 →
αὐτόν·	auton	Him;	G846 →
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
αὐτὸς	autos	He himself	G846 →
ἄφαντος	aphantos	vanished	G855 →
ἐγένετο	egeneto	being seen	G1096 →
ἀπ᾽	ap᾽	from	G575 →
αὐτῶν.	autōn	them.	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 4:30
But Jesus passed through the crowd and went on His way.
leads to
- John 10:39
  At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.
- John 8:59
  At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple area.
Through
Luke 24:16
But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.
leads to
- John 20:14
  When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there; but she did not recognize that it was Jesus.
- John 21:4
  Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not recognize that it was Jesus.
Through
John 8:59
At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple area.
leads to
- John 11:8
  “Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”
- John 10:30–33
  I and the Father are one.”
- John 10:39–40
  At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.
- Leviticus 24:16
  Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he…