Now that very day two of them were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus, and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred. And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. He asked them, "What are you discussing as you walk along?" They stopped, looking downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know of the things that have taken place there in these days?" …
As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression that he was going on farther. But they urged him, "Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over." So he went in to stay with them. And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, "Were not our hearts burning (within us) while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?" So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and those with them who were saying, "The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!" Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread. (Lk 24:13-35)
The two disciples were on their way back home. Peter did the very same thing when he said “I am going fishing”. After the death of Jesus the disciples were disillusioned, disappointed, discouraged and some of them were even desperate and they wanted to go back to their old ways of living. As they walked along they were also sharing their disappointments only.
Jesus as he walked along with them was trying to enter into their feelings, their mentality and captured their situation fully. Then he also discussed the same topic but with support of the scriptures. He was trying to make them realize that the scriptures were fulfilled in all what they had experienced. Jesus was trying to make them read life in scripture perspective.
While they were walking they communicated to each other and to Jesus what the other disciples and the women were saying. Resurrection experiences were narrated from the very beginning. Narration of their experiences was the primary factor to communicate resurrection. Even these two rushed back to Jerusalem to narrate to the others what had happened to them on their way.
