There’s something gripping about an eyewitness account, isn’t there? It’s one thing to hear a news anchor report on some far away happening, but it is quite another to listen to someone give a firsthand account of what they actually witnessed with their own two eyes. After Jesus was raised from the dead He appeared in the flesh to many different people, and the Bible recounts some of these firsthand encounters with the Risen Jesus.
This Sunday and for the next several Sundays we’ll be studying some of these post-resurrection encounters with Jesus. This Sunday we’ll be in Luke 24:13-35, which contains an interesting account of two of Jesus’ disciples who encountered Jesus on the road to Emmaus.