Why do you think that the risen Christ engages with these two disciples in this way?  (On the road, walking and talking together, etc.)  Why doesn’t he disclose who he is?

Cleopas specifies that Jesus was mighty “in deed and word”?  What do you think he means by this?  Why do you think he chose to describe Jesus in this way?

Cleopas specifies that Jesus was mighty “before God and all the people”?  What do you think he means by this?  Why do you think he chose to describe Jesus in this way?

Cleopas says that they “had hoped that Jesus was the one to redeem Israel”.  What were Jesus’s disciples hoping for?  How did the death of Christ affect their hopes and their plans?

Jesus says that it was necessary for him to suffer, and then enter into his glory.  What do you think he means by this?  How are suffering and glory related to one another?

What does it look like to suffer well, as a believer?  To be faithful, even in the midst of suffering?  To persevere through it, trusting that God will bring something glorious out of it?  How can we be aspiring toward this?

Luke says that Jesus “interpreted all the Scriptures concerning himself”.  What does this mean?  What do you think that Jesus was teaching them, and talking with them about?

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