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Emmaus
Two disciples were walking home here, about seven miles from Jerusalem, when the risen Jesus joined them and opened the Scriptures, and they knew him when he broke the bread. Where it was is still argued. Amwas, el-Qubeibeh and Qaloniyeh all have backers and none has won.
Two disciples were walking home here, about seven miles from Jerusalem, when the risen Jesus joined them and opened the Scriptures, and they knew him when he broke the bread. Where it was is still argued. Amwas, el-Qubeibeh and Qaloniyeh all have backers and none has won.
Emmaus was the village, about seven miles from Jerusalem by Luke's count, where the risen Jesus joined two disciples walking home on Easter Sunday, explaining the Scriptures to them before they recognized him in the breaking of bread (Luke 24:13-31). Its location has been disputed for centuries: candidates include Amwas/Nicopolis, roughly twenty miles from Jerusalem, which fits an alternate ancient manuscript reading of the distance; el-Qubeibeh, closer to Luke's stated distance but lacking clear first-century remains; and Qaloniyeh, a Roman veteran colony just west of the city. No site has won full scholarly consensus, and the debate remains active in current archaeological literature.
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