As Jesus joined the two disciples, they did not know that it was Jesus. How could that be? They had heard him teach, shared meals with him and walked with him. What so held their minds and hearts that they did not recognize Jesus?
Grief can be consuming, can it not? They put it in their own words: "we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel." All that they had longed for and found in Jesus they thought had been lost.
Painstakingly, Jesus taught from the scriptures all things concerning himself and the events which had taken place in Jerusalem. Yet, the disciples were slow to recognize Jesus. Only in the familiar act of breaking "daily bread" did they see that it was Jesus.
Upon recognition, the two disciples began the journey back to Jerusalem. The others must know what they knew. "The one to redeem Israel" lives.
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