Luke 24:31
New International Version
Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.

New Living Translation
Suddenly, their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And at that moment he disappeared!

English Standard Version
And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight.

Berean Standard Bible
Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus—and He disappeared from their sight.

Berean Literal Bible
And their eyes were opened, and they knew Him. And He being seen, vanished from them.

King James Bible
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.

New King James Version
Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.

New American Standard Bible
And then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight.

NASB 1995
Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight.

NASB 1977
And their eyes were opened and they recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him. And He vanished from their sight.

Amplified Bible
Then their eyes were [suddenly] opened [by God] and they [clearly] recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight.

Christian Standard Bible
Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, but he disappeared from their sight.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him, but He disappeared from their sight.

American Standard Version
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
At once their eyes were opened and they recognized him and he ascended from them.

Contemporary English Version
At once they knew who he was, but he disappeared.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him: and he vanished out of their sight.

English Revised Version
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. But he vanished from their sight.

Good News Translation
Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he disappeared from their sight.

International Standard Version
Then their eyes were opened, and they knew who he was. And he vanished from them.

Literal Standard Version
and their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him, and He became unseen by them.

Majority Standard Bible
Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus—and He disappeared from their sight.

New American Bible
With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight.

NET Bible
At this point their eyes were opened and they recognized him. Then he vanished out of their sight.

New Revised Standard Version
Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight.

New Heart English Bible
Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.

Webster's Bible Translation
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him: and he vanished out of their sight.

Weymouth New Testament
their eyes were opened and they recognized Him. But He vanished from them.

World English Bible
Their eyes were opened and they recognized him; then he vanished out of their sight.

Young's Literal Translation
and their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became unseen by them.

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Context
Jesus Opens the Scriptures
30While He was reclining at the table with them, He took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to them. 31Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus— and He disappeared from their sight. 32They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”…

Cross References
Matthew 14:35
And when the men of that place recognized Jesus, they sent word to all the surrounding region. People brought all the sick to Him

Luke 24:16
But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.


Treasury of Scripture

And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.

their eyes.

Luke 24:16
But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.

John 20:13-16
And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him…

vanished out of their sight.

Luke 4:30
But he passing through the midst of them went his way,

John 8:59
Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

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Luke 24
1. Jesus' resurrection is declared by two angels to the women who come to the tomb.
9. They report it to others.
13. Jesus himself appears to the two disciples that went to Emmaus;
36. afterwards he appears to the apostles, and reproves their unbelief;
47. gives them a charge;
49. promises the Holy Spirit;
50. and so ascends into heaven.














(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.)

Verse 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."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Then
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

their
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

eyes
ὀφθαλμοὶ (ophthalmoi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3788: The eye; fig: the mind's eye. From optanomai; the eye; by implication, vision; figuratively, envy.

were opened
διηνοίχθησαν (diēnoichthēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1272: To open fully. From dia and anoigo; to open thoroughly, literally or figuratively.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

they recognized
ἐπέγνωσαν (epegnōsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1921: From epi and ginosko; to know upon some mark, i.e. Recognize; by implication, to become fully acquainted with, to acknowledge.

[Jesus]—
αὐτόν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

He
αὐτὸς (autos)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

disappeared
ἄφαντος (aphantos)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 855: Disappearing, invisible, hidden. Non-manifested, i.e. Invisible.

from
ἀπ’ (ap’)
Preposition
Strong's 575: From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses.

[their sight].
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


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