T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S result being eleven potatoes under ground and eleven tomatoes on its branches. Whether this is true or not the fact remains that God’s resurrection power works above and also in the earth. The Christian has life from above.. v. 13. Behold two of them went. They were just ordinary disciples of whom we have never heard before, yet Jesus spent more time with them than perhaps with any COMMENTS FROM one else after MANY SOURCES His resurrection. Keith U. Brooks g— Torrey. v. 14. They talked together. This exquisite idyl of the Resurrection is too lifelike and nat ural to have been invented. The sor rowful walk, the reasonings, the won der that any one could have been for ever so short a time in Jerusalem with out knowing of the events that filled their souls, the lingering hope, the de spair that the third day was waning and He had not come, the burning heart— all these touches are full of natural pathos.—Meyer. It well becomes dis ciples of Christ when they are together, to talk of His death and resurrection. Thus they may improve one another’s knowledge and stir up one another’s devout affections.—Henry. v. 15. Jesus drew near. A beautiful illustration of the ■promise in Matt. 18:20.— Camb. Bible. v. 16. Their eyes were holden. How often does Jesus so come to us and we discern .Him not, Our paths would be less lonely and our thoughts less sad if we realized more fully and constantly our individual share in the promise, “ I am with you always.” -—Maclaren. Did not know Him. There are two other re markable instances of the same fact. (Jn. 20:14; 21:4). It accords with the clear indications that the resurrection body of our Lord was a glorified body of which the conditions transcended
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those of ordinary mortality. It is em phasized in Mark 16:12 where we are told that He was manifested in ,a dif ferent form from that which He had worn before.— Farrar. v. 17. What manner of communica tions. It needed no more than this soli tary word to unseal the fountain of their lips, for the clouds which had broken so wildly and darkly over Calvary had filled their hearts with an intense and bitter grief which longed for expression, even for the poor relief of words.— Burton. Ye are sad. All sadness arises from practical unbelief in God’s Word. (Phil. 4:6, 7; Rom. 8:28-32.)— Torrey. v. 18. Cleopas answering. As if feeling it a relief to have some one to unburden his thoughts and feelings to, this disciple goes over the main facts in his own desponding style, and this was just what our Lord wished.-— Jamieson. v. 19. Jesus of Nazareth. They only called Him Jesus of Nazareth. They did not give Him that higher title, th.e Christ, which they had freely used before. No, for the cross had rudely shattered and broken that golden cen ser in which they had been wont to burn the royal incense.— Burton. A mighty prophet. Jesus was prophet, priest and king. A prophet speàks from God to man. A priest appears before God for man. A king rules over man for God.—Nicoll. v. 20. Condemned to death. The Jews cast the Lord out because they thought He was not good enough for the world. Many today do the reverse and think the world is not yet good enough for Him.— Bullinger. v. 21. Today is the third day. Evi dently they had not altogether forgotten His words about resurrection the third day- Torrey. We trusted it had been He. The Hebrew dream of a temporal sovereignty seems to have been the pre vailing force in their minds. At present
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