The Bible In Paintings 111A: JESUS AT THE SUPPER IN EMMAUS, Part 1

c.2,200 BC - c.95 AD | by the Father, Son & Holy Spirit

[Hebrews 11:6]

JESUS

AT THE

SUPPER IN

EMMAUS

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LUKE 24
New International Version, emphases added
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GOSPEL of LUKE
Chapter 24, Verses 13-35

Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing him.

He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

“What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”

He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

I HOPE VIEWERS WILL FORGIVE
my self-indulgence here in posting 129 images of this hilarious little story. It is my favorite in the entire Bible: the spectacle of the newly-risen Christ deliberately delaying His appearance before His mourning crowd of closest disciples—leaving them for endless long hours to wonder and ponder—in order to devote several hours exclusively and incognito to these two foolish dullards. He has time and attention even for me!

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by CARAVAGGIO
"Supper at Emmaus"

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by CARAVAGGIO
"Supper at Emmaus"

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by MATTHIAS STOM
"Supper at Emmaus"

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by GIOACCHINO ASSERETO
"Supper at Emmaus"

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by BARTOLOMEO CAVAROZZI
"Supper at Emmaus"

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Detail

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by BENEDETTO LUTI
"Supper at Emmaus"

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by WILLEM VAN NIEULANDT the Younger
"Christ and Disciples at Emmaus"

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by TITIAN
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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Detail

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by REMBRANDT
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by REMBRANDT
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by DIEGO VELAZQUEZ
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by PHILIPPE DE CHAMPAIGNE
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by PETRUS VAN SCHENDEL
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by PETER PAUL RUBENS
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by PONTORMO
"Supper at Emmaus"

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by EUGENE DELACROIX
"The Disciples at Emmaus"

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by BERNARDO STROZZI
"Supper at Emmaus"

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by VERONESE
"Supper at Emmaus"

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by TROPHIME BIGOT
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by VITTORE CARPACCIO
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by TINTORETTO
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by LAMBERT JACOBSZ
"Supper at Emmaus"

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by FILIPPO TARCHIANI
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by RICHARD COSWAY
"Supper at Emmaus"

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by GIACINTO GIMIGNANI
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by JEAN-BAPTISTE DE CHAMPAIGNE
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by JACOB ANDRIES BESCHEY
"Christ and His Disciples in Emmaus"

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by GIOVANNI BELLINI

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by MARCO MARZIALE
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by CAROLE FORET
"Supper at Emmaus"

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by CRYN HENDRICKSZ VOLMARYN
"Supper at Emmaus"

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by ABRAHAM BLOEMAERT
"The Emmaus Disciples"

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by JOHN LINNELL
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by Roman School
"Supper at Emmaus"

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by GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIAZZETTA
"The Supper at Emmaus"

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by JOSEPH WINTERHALDER The Younger
"Christus in Emmaus"

To be continued…

[Hebrews 11:6]

better later than never

[Albion Wilde]

there is meaning in the still life on the table...

Fascinating! Thank you.

[freefdny]

Great point about the table legs. I had not noticed that.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

I just noticed something funny. It’s because most of the artists had no awareness of Jewish customs. Many of the pictures of bread were leavened bread or rolls, not the unleavened bread that would be eaten and broken at this time, the fourth day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Can’t slip anything past you, Sherlock!