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He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
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A Shaken but Real Faith
Commentators observe that the disciples' description reveals a faith shaken by the cross. They could confidently call Jesus a 'prophet mighty in deed and word,' but their hope in him as the Messiah who would redeem Israel had been crushed. This shows the genuine, yet incomplete, stage of their belief before they understood the resurrection.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A prophet. A teacher sent from God. They did not then call him the Messiah, for his death had led them to doubt that, but they had no doub…
19th Century
Anglican
What things?—Literally, What kind of things?
Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophe…
Baptist
And one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said to him, Are you only a stranger in Jerusalem, and have not known the things that have h…
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What follows constitutes an affirmation about the person and work of Christ that is of great significance for our understanding of Jesus and of Luk…
16th Century
Protestant
Powerful in deed and in word. Luke has used nearly the same form of expression concerning Stephen, (Acts 7:22) where he says o…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said to them, what things ? &c.] Still appearing as if he was ignorant, and in order to draw out of them a particu…
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