What does Luke 24:53 Mean?

Context Summary

The risen Savior is the key to Scripture. The pages of Holy Writ need the illumination that falls from His face. Whenever you open the Old Testament, described here under its customary Hebrew threefold division, be sure to ask Him to open your understanding also!

Repentance is turning from sin. It is the act of the will. In remitting sin Christ not only forgives, but stands between the sinner and the consequences.

The "beginning" must be Jerusalem, because the Jew is first in the divine order, Romans 1:16. But the end is the uttermost part of the earth. We are not called to be defenders, but witnesses of the truth. We speak what we know and testify what we have seen. Our fellow-witness is the Holy Spirit, Acts 5:32.

Those outspread hands have never been withdrawn. They are still extended over us in benediction, and from heaven itself rain down perennial Messing. Let us rejoice in Him with great joy; may each lowly home be a temple full of praise!

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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