Mark 12:1–12; Luke 4:14–29; John 8:48–59). What Jesus’s enemies refused to see, his disciples finally realized, slow though they were, just like us. The Emmaus road (Luke 24:13–49) is a path worn nearly smooth by the tread of preachers over the centuries. But however many sermons we’ve heard or even preached on it, its message is still startling and compelling. Luke masterfully retells Jesus’s strange appearance to those brokenhearted disciples. Because we readers know that Christ is risen, we can’t