Luke 24

Jesus Christ is the great Prophet of his church; the woman of Samaria gave a shrewd guess (John 4:19). He is the best teacher; he makes all other teaching effectual (Luke 24:45). Then opened he their understanding.

So the Hermians. But the Scripture is plain he ascended into heaven (Luke 24:51), and (Ephesians 4:10) far above all heavens: Therefore, above the firmament. He is ascended into the highest part of the Empyrean heaven, which Paul calls the third heaven.

Not to dispute what God could have done, but when we consider God was resolved to have the law satisfied, and to have man in a way of justice as well as mercy; then, I say, it was necessary that Christ should lay down his life as a sacrifice: 1. To fulfill the predictions of Scr…

Object. Against this Vorstius and the Anthropomorphites object, that in Scripture a human shape and figure is given to God; he is said to have eyes and hands? Resp. It is contrary to the nature of a spirit to have a corporeal substance; (Luke 24:39). Handle me, and see me, for a…

This sweet enjoying of God is when we feel his Spirit cooperating with the ordinance, and distilling grace upon our hearts. First, when in the word the Spirit does quicken and raise the affections (Luke 24:32): "Did not our hearts burn within us?" Second, when the Spirit does tr…

(Psalm 83:18): That men may know, that you whose name alone is Jehovah, are the most high over all the earth. And the disciples speaking of Jesus, did hallow his name (Luke 24:19): Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people. When…

Get your hearts quickened with the Word; go to it to fetch fire. Luke 24:31: Did not our hearts burn within us. Labor that the Word may not only be a lamp to direct, but a fire to warm.

Matthew 4:17: From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent, etc. And in his last farewell, when he was ascending to Heaven, he commanded that repentance should be preached in his name (Luke 24:37). Repentance is a pure Gospel grace.

Aphorism or Position 7. That sin is not forgiven, till it be repented of. Therefore they are put together (Luke 24:47). Repentance and Remission; Domine da poenitentiam, & postea indulgentiam. Fulgentius. 9. Now in repentance, there are three main ingredients, and all these must…

Q What was the place to which he did ascend? A. The third heaven, far above this earth, and all these inferior and visible heavens (Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51; Acts 1:11; John 14:1-2; Ephesians 4:10). Q. Was this ascension of Christ a true and real mutation and change of place, or o…

We see by experience that he prevails most in this sort of temptation with melancholic temperaments, who dwelling in dark shops he much deceives with false colors and glosses. When affections are up and cloud the mind, then multitudes of troublesome thoughts arise, and every sug…

For there is salvation in none other (Acts 4:12). And that holds the Gospel faith: namely, that they believe in a crucified, dead, and risen Jesus (through whom they obtain remission of sins) whom God has exalted to be Lord, and Christ, namely eternal King, Priest, and Prophet,…

But were those disciples Paul found at Ephesus (that had been baptized by John the Baptist) rebaptized by Paul? In answering this objection, I conceive: first, there was a vast difference between faith and baptism; John preached before the suffering, death, and resurrection of C…

What was the condition with the faith of the best of men when the Lord Christ was in the grave? At how great a loss they were, and how their faith was shaken to the utmost, the two disciples expressed to the Lord Christ himself as they went to Emmaus (Luke 24:21). We trusted tha…

The things of the Gospel, pardon of sin, peace with God, participation of the Spirit, grace and glory, are great and marvelous. Men at the hearing of them are like them that dream, the words concerning them seem like the report of the women to the Apostles, concerning the resurr…

To this the Reverend Author Answereth, 1. That the invalidity of Proofes from the Old Testament, being applyed to Gospel-Ordinances, and so this of Baptism under the New Testament, in things whereof there is not the like reason, has been declared in the fourth, sixth, and eighth…

Yet must we not imagine that they are bodily substances consisting of flesh and bone. And though they took upon them visible shapes and forms, and did eat and drink in the company of men, and thereupon are called men in scripture: yet they did this by divine dispensation for a t…

His words are not as vinegar to fret, but as salt to season others (Colossians 4:6). The roof of the mouth is called Coelum, heaven; a godly man's mouth is full of heaven; he speaks as if he had been already in heaven: The holy conference of the two disciples going to Emmaus bro…

So Luke [illegible]: Zachary was struck dumb for not believing what God had revealed. Christ did never chide his Disciples so much for any thing as for their unbelief (Luke 24:25), O you fools, and slow of heart to believe: and Why doubt you, O you of little Faith? (Matthew 8:26…

God and Nature has made Magistrates, and given them great authority: But from Christ as Mediator they have it not. I finde in Scripture, that Church-Officers have their power from Christ as Mediator, and they are to manage their office under and for Christ, and in the Name of th…

Had any of us been with Christ and acknowledged him the Savior of the world, and yet seen him crucified in such a manner by men; and judged only by that, what wise and what just constructions should we have made of that providence? Much the same as some of his disciples did (Luk…

Exercise eyes of Faith, and knees of Prayer; let us hang upon God by holy importunity, and not let him go. Luke 24. 29. They constrained him, saying, Abide with us, for it is towards evening. Is not God upon the threshold of his Temple ready to fly?

We then hear, when as there is a disposition wrought within us: when as we preach, there are many that have hard hearts and nothing for to soften them; therefore the words falls from them as rain from a stone: but if there be a man that God will choose, he fits his heart, and so…

The Holy Spirit is that great benefit, that is the subject-matter of the promises, both of the eternal Covenant of Redemption, and also of the Covenant of Grace; the grand subject of the promises of the Old Testament, in the prophecies of the blessings of the Messiah's kingdom;…

I pray, is not the body of Christ, sometimes mentioned without speaking of the blood, and the blood oftener without speaking of the body; is not the whole Supper called the Cup, without mentioning of the Bread (1 Corinthians 10:21), all by the same Synecdoche? I shall not insist…

And this, I suppose, we cannot better be instructed in, than by considering, what was answered to it by Christ himself, his Apostles, and those that succeeded them in the profession of the faith of the Gospel. (1) For Christ himself; it is certain he pleaded his miracles, the wo…

And "the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true" (1 John 5:20) — as if, forsooth, we had not been furnished with one before. At least He changes it to such a degree that it becomes capable of rightly performing its proper office:…

2. Observe, that the real and very great sorrow that the sins of the Elect deserved, our Lord Jesus did really and actually bear and suffer; as we have expounded the words and confirmed the exposition given of them, you have a clear confirmation of the doctrine from them; 1. Gri…

2. Justice appears in this respect, that when the Son of God, the Mediator, offers to become man, and to endure and suffer all that the elect should have suffered, his sufferings should be accepted as a satisfaction; because the justice of God, yes, the holiness, power, and grea…

So, having shown how it comes to pass that Christ suffered and suffered so much, and was brought so low under suffering; and having told that he was engaged to pay the Elect's debt, and that the Father had laid their iniquities on him; lest any might think that the Father would…

To be cut off out of the land of the living, is to have an end put to the natural life, which is ordinarily done by death; but cutting off here signifies to be taken away not in an ordinary but in an extraordinary way, to be removed by a violent death by the stroke of justice. W…

And I said to you when you were in your blood, live (Ezekiel 16:6). One word, live, is with child of omnipotence; Majesty, and heaven, and glory lie in the womb of one word, when Christ speaks as Christ, he speaks pounds and talent-weights (Luke 24:32). The disciples going to Em…

Nor need we flee to that exposition ever and anon, that Christ died for all, that is, all ranks of men. For "all" is put in Scripture ordinarily for many; as (Deuteronomy 1:21; Psalm 71:18; Jeremiah 15:10; Jeremiah 19:9; Jeremiah 20:7; Jeremiah 23:30; Jeremiah 49:17; Ezekiel 16:…

The true reason and mind of which blessing them was that he being now to go to execute the eternal office of his priesthood in heaven (of which God had sworn, 'You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek'), as Melchizedek in the type blessed Abraham and in him all th…

And so (oppositely) the same affections that are in men, so far as they are spiritual, and the spirit or soul is the seat of them, they must needs be found in the good angels. But Christ having a human nature, the same for substance that ours is, consisting both of soul and body…

Quench not the Spirit; now quenching belongs to fire, a sign therefore that the spirit is of a fervent nature, so far forth as it is capable of any quenching and destroying by the sons of men, and (2 Timothy 1:6) stir up the gifts of grace in you; as if you stirred up the embers…

An evident argument, though the word read may be of much use to establish us; yet much more the personal presence, and conference and preaching of the Gospel of Christ, else that prayer of his had been something impertinent. And so secondly, for conferring of the Scriptures, you…

Rabbi Simeon and Rabbi Hadersim out of Daniel, that after Messiah had preached half seven years he shall be slain. 5. It was necessary that by death he should come to his glory of which now some glimpse and foretaste was given to him (Luke 24:46). Thus it is written, and thus it…

Christ had told them that he should suffer an ignominious death, which they did not thoroughly understand, nor could they reconcile it with the present thoughts which they had of the Messiah, nor was it fit for them to hear all, how the death of Christ was foretold in the prophe…

As he has absolute authority to teach in his own name, and fullness of sufficiency to make known the mind of God to us; so he has power to make his doctrine effectual. As when he dealt with his disciples, after he had opened the Scriptures, he opened their understandings (Luke 2…

The third is, to teach the heart within, by illuminating the mind, and by working a faith of the doctrine which is taught. He opens the understandings of his disciples that they may understand the Scriptures (Luke 24:45). Thus here he enlightens and teaches Paul.

Gen. 42. This was the Simulation of Christ, who when he was come to Emaus, made as though he would have gone further, Luk 24:28. Thus Paul among the Iewes, plaid the Iewe, 1.

Upon like grounds Isaiah calls the Israelites, people of Sodom and Gomorrah (Isaiah 1). Christ calls the two disciples, foolish, and slow of heart to believe (Luke 24:25). Paul calls the Cretans liars and slow bellies (Titus 1:12).

Law] the word (law) in the first place, is taken properly for the moral and ceremonial law of Moses: and in the second place, for the books of Moses, and namely, for the book of Genesis. And in this sense the word is taken, when Christ is said to expound the law and the Prophets…

Our Savior Christ (the great Doctor of the Church) has by his own practice given us a precedent hereof in expounding the law (Matthew 5), in expounding all hard parables to his disciples apart: for the text says, that he unfolded or expounded them to them (Mark 4:33). That he in…

For although he was come, yet he was not then known, neither were the ceremonies of the law abolished. But when the veil of the Temple was rent in two (Matthew 27:51), and remission of sins preached in his name (Luke 24:46-47; Acts 13:38), then these high praises touching the Te…

49. And, lo, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but remain you in the city of Jerusalem, till you are endued with power from on high. Luke 24:41. But while they yet believed not for joy.

12. And after these things he appeared in another form to two of them who were walking, and were going into the country. Luke 24:13-30 13. And lo, two of them were going, on the same day, to a village which was about sixty furlongs distant from Jerusalem, called Emmaus;

14. Afterwards he appeared to the eleven while they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who saw him after he was risen. Luke 24:31-40 31. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him;

20. And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by accompanying signs. Luke 24:50-53 50. And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and lifted up his hands, and blessed them.