But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
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Gill's Exposition
And when they found not his body,.... In the sepulchre, as they expected, and so could not do what they intended:
they came; they returned from the sepulchre with great haste, and in a very great…
Barnes' Notes
We trusted - We hoped and expected. Should have redeemed Israel - That he was the Messiah, who would have delivered the nation from the Romans. Besides all this - It is to be observed that Cleopas…
Adam Clarke
Cleopas paints the real state of his own mind in these verses. In his relation there is scarcely any thing well connected; important points are referred to, and not explained, though he considered the…
This appearance of Christ to the two disciples going to Emmaus was mentioned, and but just mentioned, before (Mar 16:12); here it is largely related. It happened the same day that Christ rose, the…
Cambridge Bible
we trusted This would imply that now their hope was dimmed, if not quenched. This perhaps led to the reading -we trust" (elpizomen for elpizomen) inand some inferior MSS., which Alford calls a…
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