John Gill Commentary Luke 24:36

"And as they spake these things, he himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace [be] unto you." — Luke 24:36 (ASV)

And as they thus spoke While the two disciples, that came from Emmaus, were giving the above relation; just as they had finished it, and had scarcely done speaking:

Jesus himself stood in the midst of them ; the apostles; who were assembled together in a certain house, the doors being shut for fear of the Jews; and it was on the evening of the same day Christ rose from the dead, and late at night; see (John 20:19) and without hearing the doors opened, or the sound of the feet of Jesus, and without seeing him come in, and approach to them, he, in a moment, at once, stood in the middle of them, as if he had immediately rose up out of the earth before them; and so the Persic version renders it, "Jesus rose up out the midst of them": by his power he opened the and secretly let himself in, and shut them again at once; and by the agility of his body moved so swiftly, that he was not discerned until he was among them, where he stood to be seen, and known by them;

whereby he made that good in a corporeal sense, which he had promised in a spiritual sense, (Matthew 18:20) and was an emblem of his presence in his churches, and with his ministers, to the end of the world.

And says to them, peace be to you ; which was an usual form of salutation among the Jews; (See Gill on John 20:19). The Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions add, "I am he, fear not"; but this clause is not in the Greek copies.