Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 24:18

"And one of them, named Cleopas, answering said unto him, Dost thou alone sojourn in Jerusalem and not know the things which are come to pass there in these days?" — Luke 24:18 (ASV)

One of them, whose name was Cleopas.—The name is to be distinguished from the Clopas of John 19:25, which was probably a Grecized form of the Aramaic name of a Galilean disciple. Here the name is a Greek contraction of Cleopatros (similar to Antipas from Antipatros), and, insofar as it is connected with Cleopatra, indicates Hellenistic and probably Alexandrian antecedents. This may in part, perhaps, account for his imparting to St. Luke what had not found its way into the current oral teaching of the Hebrew Church in Jerusalem, as embodied in the narratives of St. Matthew and St. Mark.

Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem?—The English is, at least, ambiguous. Better, Are you alone a sojourner...?