Luke 24:19 - Exposition

And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people . To the Stranger's question, "What things have so lately excited Jerusalem?" they both probably burst out with "the Name," then doubtless on all lips in the holy city, "Jesus of Nazareth," the hated and adored Same. And then they went on with a farther explanation to One who seemed a stranger just arrived: they explained who this Jesus was supposed to have been. "He was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people," which Lunge happily paraphrases "equally great in secret contemplative holiness and in public acts of beneficence." But then the "two" explained, " This he was ; for he is no more. Our chief priests and rulers have done him to death. They have crucified him."