John Gill Commentary Luke 24:18

John Gill Commentary

Luke 24:18

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

Luke 24:18

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"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)

And one of them, whose name was Cleophas
Or Alphaeus, for it is the same name; he was one of the seventy disciples, and father of the Apostles James and Jude, and brother to Joseph, the husband of Mary, the mother of Christ, as before observed:

answering, said unto him, art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and
has not known the things which are come to pass there in these
days ?
The Persic version reads, "in these two days": the sense that whereas he appeared to come from Jerusalem, that if he was only a stranger and a sojourner, and not a stated inhabitant there, he could not be ignorant of what had been done there a few days past; or if he was, that he must be the only stranger, and the only man, that was so; for the facts referred to were so notorious, that every one must know them, inhabitant or stranger.