Burning Hearts on the Open Road
Easter 3A | Luke 24:13-35
Now we’re on the road to Emmaus from Jerusalem. Last week, the lectionary had us in the Upper Room and two weeks ago, the empty tomb. So that means two weeks have gone by for us but for them, zero days. We are back at Easter, the Resurrection Day. And we’ve moved to a different gospel, to Luke. And it is in Luke’s gospel that Jesus says that the disciples are to go ahead to Galilee because Jesus will be meeting them there.
This evangelist we call Luke is far less focused on fear than John is. These disciples aren’t hiding. Now, don’t get me wrong, they still ran away from the crucifixion and abandoned Jesus on the cross. That is consistent in all of the gospels. But Luke’s focus is on the experience of the people who followed Jesus and on helping us engage with it ourselves.
So first: these disciples.
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