undergo all this so as to enter into his glory?” (24:27). Their hearts captivated by his recasting of their experience, they invite him to stay with them. In return, he once again hosts them, this time in the breaking of the bread. “With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him” (24:31). Now they are able to name the burning in their hearts, and newly born in the Easter faith of disciples, they immediately rise to return to those from whom they had fled, with a mission to tell them “what
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