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Luke 24:32
They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The two disciples speak to each other immediately after Jesus vanishes from their sight following His explanation of the Scriptures on the road to Emmaus.
The words — καρδία (kardia) = heart; οὐχὶ (ouchi) = Surely. The text records their direct question about the internal sensation that accompanied Jesus' speech and scriptural explanation.
The thread — The theme of Scripture's penetrating power appears in Jeremiah 23:29, Hebrews 4:12, and Luke 24:45, where divine revelation is described as fire, a living word that pierces the soul, and an act of opening the mind to understanding.
Why it lands — It demands recognition that God's word actively affects the reader and requires an immediate response, as demonstrated by the disciples' instant departure for Jerusalem.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Cross-references
- Luke 24:45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
- Jeremiah 23:29 “Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”
- Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- Psalms 39:3 My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
- Jeremiah 15:16 Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 20:9 If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
- Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
- John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
- Psalms 104:34 May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.
- Acts 17:2 As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,