Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 24:18
Art thou only a stranger? ... - This is an expression of surprise that he should be unacquainted with an affair that had made so much noise, and that had been attended with so remarkable circumstances. The word “stranger” here denotes one who had come to reside at a place only for a “time,” not a permanent inhabitant. Many Jews came up from all parts of the world to Jerusalem, to keep the Passover there. They appear to have taken Jesus to be such a stranger or foreigner. The meaning of this... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 24:18
And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas . This name is a Greek contraction of Cleopatros , and points to Alexandrian antecedents. Dean Plumptre suggests that this may in part, perhaps, account for this Cleopas, not improbably a Jew of Alexandria, imparting to St. Luke what had not found its way into the current oral teaching of the Hebrew Church at Jerusalem, as embodied in the narratives of SS . Matthew and Mark. Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem? better translated, dost... read more