Luke Chapter 24, Verse 29
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29: και παρεβιασαντο αυτον λεγοντες μεινον μεθ ημων οτι προς εσπεραν εστιν και κεκλικεν η ημερα και εισηλθεν του μειναι συν αυτοις
29: But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is
toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to
tarry with them.
29: But they constrained him, saying: Stay with us, because it is
towards evening and the day is now far spent. And he went in with them.
Constrained him. They urged him, or pressingly invited him.
They did not yet perceive that it was Jesus, but they had been charmed
and delighted with his discourse, and they wished to hear him farther.
Christians are delighted with communion with Jesus. They seek it as
the chief object of their desire, and they find their chief pleasure
in fellowship with him. The two disciples felt it a privilege to
entertain the stranger, as they supposed, who had so charmed them with
his discourse; and so those to whom the gospel is preached, and who love
it, feel it a privilege, and not a burden, to show kindness to those
who bear to them the message of salvation.
Abide with us. Remain with us, or pass the night in our house.
