What does Luke 24:20 Mean?

Context Summary

This exquisite idyll of the Resurrection is too lifelike and natural to have been invented. The sorrowful walk; the reasonings; the wonder that anyone could have been for ever so short a time in Jerusalem without knowing of the events that filled their souls; the lingering hope; the despair that the third day was waning and He had not come; the clue of the morning announcement which had not been followed up; the burning heart-all these touches are full of natural pathos.

How swiftly the seven and a half miles must have sped in such company; and what new light illumined the pages of the Old Testament! All the Bible is full of Him, but we need to be shown its meaning. It is only through suffering that we shall come to the glory. But why should not life be one sweet walk of fellowship with One whom we cannot see, but whose presence fills our hearts with burning love, until suddenly the veil shall part in twain! See 1 Peter 1:8. [source]

Chapter Summary: Luke 24

¹  Jesus' resurrection is declared by two angels to the women who come to the tomb
⁹  They report it to others
¹³  Jesus himself appears to the two disciples that went to Emmaus;
³⁶  afterwards he appears to the apostles, and reproves their unbelief;
⁴⁷  gives them a charge;
⁴⁹  promises the Holy Spirit;
⁵⁰  and so ascends into heaven