Luke Chapter 24 verse 31 Holy Bible

ASV Luke 24:31

And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
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BBE Luke 24:31

And then their eyes were open, and they had knowledge of him, but he went from their view.
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DARBY Luke 24:31

And their eyes were opened, and they recognised him. And he disappeared from them.
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KJV Luke 24:31

And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
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WEB Luke 24:31

Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.
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YLT Luke 24:31

and their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became unseen by them.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 31. - He vanished out of their sight. Not here, not now, can we hope to understand the nature of the resurrection-body of the Lord; it is and must remain to us, in our present condition, a mystery. Certain facts have, however, been revealed to us: (1) The Resurrection was a reality, not an appearance; for on more than one occasion the Lord permitted the test of touch. He also ate before his disciples of their ordinary food. (2) Yet there was a manifest exemption flora the common conditions of bodily (corporeal) existence; for he comes through a closed door; he could withdraw himself when he would from touch as well as from sight; he could vanish in a moment from those looking on him; he could, as men gazed on him, rise by the exertion of his own will into the clouds of heaven. (3) He was known just as he pleased and when he pleased; for at times during the "forty days" men and women looked on him without a gleam of recognition, at times they gazed at him, knowing well that it was the Lord. On the words, "he vanished out of their sight," Godet writes, "It must be remembered that Jesus, strictly speaking, was already no more with them (ver. 44), and that the miracle consisted rather in his appearing than in his disappearing." Dr. Westcott expresses the same truth in different language, "What was natural to him before was now miraculous, what was before miraculous is now natural."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(31) And he vanished out of their sight.--Literally, He became invisible. The adjective does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament. In the order of time this is the first example of the new conditions of our Lord's risen life. It was not that He rose and left the room in which they sat. In a moment they knew Him with all the fulness of recognition; and then they saw Him no more. The work for which He had come to them was done. He had imparted comfort and insight, and had brought them into communion with Himself, and then they were to be taught that that communion was no longer to depend, as before, on a visible and localised presence. (Comp. Luke 24:36, John 20:19; John 20:26.)