A Discipleship Couple...


I was listening in on a devotional today based on Luke 24, and I heard something I just had to share!


It is recorded by Luke that 2 disciples were walking toward a small village called Emmaus on the day Jesus rose from the dead. Jesus then shows up next to them and asks them what they were discussing together. So then a conversation occurs where Jesus (whom they don't recognize) listens and then teaches them all about Scripture being fulfilled. You can read it again if you are interested, but here's what is curious for me...one of them is named Cleopas. Where have we heard that name before? Good question! If you look at John's good news account, chapter 19:25 lists Mary, the wife of Cleopas, as one of the women at the cross that day.

So, could the other disciple on the road that day have been Mary? So, a married couple of disciples was visited by Jesus on their way home to Emmaus? This couple was likely processing the traumatic events of the weekend, and Jesus walked with them in it! As NT Wright comments, Cleopas and Mary, as a married couple, would explain their arrival at the home where they stayed together!

Although we can't prove for certain this was the case, it sure makes sense and provides a glimpse of a husband and wife following Jesus together.

Thank you, Lord, for joining two to become one and the beauty of a couple following the ways of Jesus!

'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’
-Jesus in Matthew 19:5


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