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PB: ... "what about Cleopas and Cephas? Did you address that and I just missed it?"


Cleopas and his fellow-disciple didn't encounter Jesus till later in the day. The precise time of day when they began their journey to Emmaus isn't specified, but if one figures that they were walking at a rate of speed greater than two-and-a-third miles an hour, and figuring that Emmaus was approximately seven miles from Jerusalem, and that they made no long stops, then, figuring that they approached Emmaus when "the day is far spent" (Lk. 24:29) then they probably left Jerusalem no later than three hours before sunset.

Fewer details are available about the timing of Jesus' appearance to Simon Peter; this encounter happened at some point before Cleopas and his fellow-disciple reached Jerusalem and informed the others about their encounter (since the disciples mention in in Lk. 24:34), but the most likely timing, as I indicated in the "Easter Challenge" preface, is that it was subsequent to Mary Magdalene's encounter with Jesus at the tomb. After Mary Magdalene and the other Mary informed the disciples about the empty tomb (in John 20:1-2), Simon Peter and the other disciple (in John 20:3-10) themselves went to the tomb, found it empty, and then went to their homes, and John 20:11ff. proceeds to relate Mary Magdalene's encounter with Jesus. John 20:11 doesn't say how long M.M. wept, so one /could,/ if one really wanted to, posit that Jesus appeared to Simon Peter right after Simon Peter went to his home (or living-quarters) immediately before appearing to Mary Magdalene. But it seems simpler to put Mary Magdalene's encounter first, and the encounter between Jesus and Peter at some undetermined point later in the day.

Yours in Christ,

Waterrock