But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
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But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
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But their eyes were holden that they coulde not knowe him.
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But their eyes were holden, that they could not know him.
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Passages linked to Luke 24:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- John 20:14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.
- John 21:4 But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn’t know that it was Jesus.
- Luke 24:31 Their eyes were opened and they recognized him, then he vanished out of their sight.
- Mark 16:12 After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.
- 2 Kings 6:18-20 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” He struck them with blindness according to Elishah’s word. Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” He led them to Samaria. When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “Yahweh, open these men’s eyes, that they may see.” Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the middle of Samaria.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Were held back and stayed, God so appointing it,…
Were held back and stayed, God so appointing it, no doubt: and therefore his body was not invisible, but their eyes were dimmed.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 16 But their eyes were holden that they should…
16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
Ver. 16. But their eyes were held] Ut ulcus suum discipuli detegerent, ac pharmacum susciperent, saith Theophylact. That they may tell their own disease and receive healing.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain God by his providence restrained their eyes, that though…
God by his providence restrained their eyes, that though they saw a man, yet they could not discern who he was. We may learn from hence that the form or figure of Christ’s body after his resurrection was not changed. His body had the same dimensions, the same quantity, colour, and figure, and was in itself a proper object for human eyes; for otherwise there had been no need for their eyes to be held. From hence also we may learn the influence which God hath upon all our members and senses, and how much we depend upon God for a daily power to exercise our natural faculties. Our Lord had no mind that these two disciples should at first discern who he was, that he might draw out their following discourses, and from them take occasion to prove from Scripture the certainty of his resurrection. From this text we may gather, how hard the Lutherans are put to it to maintain the real presence of the body of Christ, wherever the sacrament of the Lord’s supper is administered; for this they must maintain, that although the body of Christ after his resurrection was the same that was crucified, and so obvious to sense, yet he had not only a power to make it insensible and invisible, which we grant, but that he hath also a power to multiply it, and make it in one and the same instant to be in so many places as his supper is administered in; and also that he willeth it at the same time to be imperceptible by any human senses in all those places: for it is apparent from hence, that it was not at all times imperceptible; it might at this time have been seen, had not the disciples eyes been held, that they could not know him.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And one of them, whose name was Cleophas,.... Or…
And one of them, whose name was Cleophas,.... Or Alphaeus, for it is the same name; he was one of the seventy disciples, and father of the Apostles James and Jude, and brother to Joseph, the husband of Mary, the mother of Christ, as before observed:
answering, said unto him, art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? The Persic version reads, "in these two days": the sense that whereas he appeared to come from Jerusalem, that if he was only a stranger and a sojourner, and not a stated inhabitant there, he could not be ignorant of what had been done there a few days past; or if he was, that he must be the only stranger, and the only man, that was so; for the facts referred to were so notorious, that every one must know them, inhabitant or stranger.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. Their eyes were holden] It does not…
Verse 16. Their eyes were holden] It does not appear that there was any thing supernatural here, for the reason why these persons (who were not apostles, see Lu 24:33) did not recollect our Lord is given by Mark, Mr 16:12, who says that Christ appeared to them in another form.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Their eyes were holden - This expression is used…
Their eyes were holden - This expression is used merely to denote that they did not “know” who he was. It does not appear that there was anything supernatural or miraculous in it, or that God used any power to blind them. It may easily be accounted for without any such supposition; for,
Jesus appeared “in another form” Mar 16:12 - that is, different from his “usual” appearance. They were not “expecting” to see him - indeed, they did not suppose that he was alive, and it required the strongest evidence to convince them that he was really risen from the dead.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain But their eyes were held: either by our Saviour’s…
But their eyes were held: either by our Saviour’s changing his features, or in what manner he pleased. (Witham)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. Their eyes were holden—Restrained. Mark says that Jesus…
16. Their eyes were holden—Restrained. Mark says that Jesus appeared to them in another form. It is thereby a nice question, whether the change was in the form of Jesus or in the eyes of the disciples. Some say both; making a superfluous amount of miracle. If their eyes were influenced, of course, optically speaking, Jesus would appear in another form; or the change of form may have holden their eyes.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. that they should not know him] Rather, recognise…
16. that they should not know him] Rather, recognise Him. There are two other instances of the same remarkable fact. Mary of Magdala did not recognise Him (Joh_20:14), nor the disciples on the Lake (Joh_21:4). The same thing is evidently implied in Luk_24:37 and in Mat_28:17; and it exactly accords with the clear indications that the Resurrection Body of our Lord was a Glorified Body of which the conditions transcended those of ordinary mortality. It is emphasized in Mar_16:12, where we are told that He was manifested in a different form from that which He had worn before.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain But their eyes were holden, that they should not…
But their eyes were holden, that they should not know him. So Mary Magdalene looked on and failed to recognize at first the Person of her adored Master. (Joh_20:15) So by the lake-shore, as he stood and spoke to the tired fishermen, they who had been so long with him knew him not. Some mysterious change had been wrought in the Person of the Lord. Between the Resurrection and the Ascension, men and women now looked on him without a gleam of recognition, now gazed on him knowing well that it was the Lord. "It is vain," writes Dr. Westcott, "to give any simply natural explanation of the failure of the disciples to recognize Christ. After the Resurrection he was known as he pleased, and not necessarily at once Till they who gazed on him were placed in something of spiritual harmony with the Lord, they could not recognize him." The two on their walk to Emmaus, and Mary Magdalene in the garden, were preoccupied with their sorrow. The fisher-disciples on the lake were preoccupied with their work, so that the vision of the Divine was obscured. The risen Christ will surely fulfil his own words, "The pure in heart, they shall see God" but only the pure in heart.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 16. Their eyes were holden. This was their explanation…
16. Their eyes were holden. This was their explanation of not knowing him. Mark says (16:12) that he was “in another form.”
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 24:16 God kept them from recognizing him: The Greek…
24:16 God kept them from recognizing him: The Greek uses a passive construction (they were kept from recognizing him) known as a “divine passive,” with God as the implied subject. God intentionally blinded their eyes until the moment of revelation, when Jesus broke bread with them (24:30-31; cp. 2 Kgs 6:17).
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