After having their eyes opened to recognize that it was Jesus who had been communing with them, revealing Himself to them from the Scriptures, the two disciples who had just arrived in Emmaus immediately arose and returned to Jerusalem to share with others what they had discovered: Jesus really was alive! Arriving back in Jerusalem…
On the first day of the week, three days after His crucifixion, the risen Jesus met two of His disciples on the road to Emmaus, a village about seven miles or a couple hours walking distance from Jerusalem. They were just debating the events of the past few days that culminated in the news of…
When most people celebrate communion they associate the breaking of bread with Jesus’ body that was in a sense broken for them. However, this is actually not what the Scripture associates with the breaking of bread. In fact, it seems that God went out of His way to make clear that this is not what we are to associate with the breaking of bread.