As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them (v 15). The disciples talked and discussed as they walked along. Homilein (converse) is found only in Luke-Acts in the NT. This is the word from which we derive the English “homiletics” (24:14, 15; Acts 20:11; 24:26; in the OT only in Prov 15:12; 23:31; and Dan 1:19). For the first time in the Gospel story we have disciples who are not just astonished, confused, and disbelieving. Now they are
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