Luke 21-24 records the last few days of Jesus’ life, His arrest, trial, conviction, death and resurrection. One of the aspects of Jesus’ resurrection included by Luke, but by none of the other gospel writers, was Jesus’ conversation with two “disciples” on the road to Emmaus. The account is so powerful, because the two, one of whom was named Cleopas, were walking home because Jesus is dead, and their hope is gone. Suddenly, a “stranger” appears with them on the road and begins to ask them why they are upset. They ask if He is the only one who has been to Jerusalem who hasn’t heard of what went on there over the past three days. Jesus then took them through the Scriptures (which would be our Old Testament) and told them the Messiah must suffer and then rise again. At the end of the trip, when the men made it home, Jesus acted as if He would continue on, so they invited Him to have dinner with them. As Jesus was breaking bread with them, they realized it was Jesus. At that moment He disappeared from their sight. Even though it had to be getting dark, even though they had no means of lighting their way back to Jerusalem, they ran back to town, and told the other disciples they had seen Jesus. What a powerful aspect of Jesus’ resurrection interaction with His followers! Our Lord and Savior is no martyr, because He rose from the dead. That’s what sets Him apart from every other great person, or religious figure who ever lived.