Emmaus on the Mountain
See also: Emmaus on the Plain, Emmaus of Tiberias.
The village of the pilgrims of Luke 24:13-33.
Inhabitants or natives
Cleophas, the leader of the synagogue and his Family, Cleophas his son and Simon his bWater-father, the two pilgrims of Emmaus, Simon of Emmaus the notable, Hermas the notable, a disciple, Joseph of Emmaus accused of incest.
It is near this village that the parents of Margziam lived.
Description
Jesus is with his people in a very mountainous area. The road is inconvenient and difficult. Jesus preaches there[1].
The descriptions of Maria Valtorta seem to make credible its identification with the site of Al-Qubeiba, located at an altitude of about 790 m. This site includes a Franciscan church built on the ruins of an older church commemorating the place where Jesus broke the bread with the Disciples.
Significant events
Towards the end of his Public Life and during a second stay, Jesus tells a parable there about the situation of Israel[2]. It is also near this village, 11 km from Jerusalem, that Cleophas and his bWater-father Simon were heading when Jesus appeared to them, Salton Luke 24:13[3].
Its name
Emmaus on the Mountain, El Qubeibeh, Ammaous - Beit Mizzeh - Moza - Kh. Beit Mizza
(Hot spring)
Where is it mentioned in the work?
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Learn more about this place
There are other Emmaus locations:
Village located 9-11 km northwest of Jerusalem, (a location consistent with the "village" and the 60 stadia mentioned by Saint Luke).
Excerpt from the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel Salton Maria Valtorta, by Jean-François Lavère:Note that when going to Emmaus, while "the sun is declining," the Disciples, facing the setting sun, were Confessionglés and had to walk keeping their eyes fixed on the irregularities of the Roman road. This may be what Saint Luke expresses when he writes: "Their eyes were prevented from recognizing him" [4](Lk 24:16). Luke uses a precise Greek word: ekratounto, from krateô, to hold or restrain. Literally translated, this means: "Their eyes were prevented from recognizing him"[5]. Salton Saint Thomas Aquinas, The Spirit, having full power over the glorious body, can make the body visible or not, or change its appearance.In the work, Jesus passes several times through or near Emmaus, coming from Arimathea and going to Sichar, or coming from Shechem and going to Jerusalem, or also coming from Ramah (Judea). It is also nearby that the parents of Margziam/Martial "buried in the landslide near Emmaus" lived[6]. When Jesus passes there again, in the autumn of the third year, the Home of the inhabitants is warm: "The place of Emmaus. It is full of people, completely full. And in the center of the square, Jesus who struggles to move as he is surrounded, oppressed by the people who besiege him" ...[7].
Even today, the exact location of Emmaus is the subject of several hypotheses. Maria Valtorta’s description indisputably validates the current village of El Qubeibeh, where the Israeli archaeologist Elijahn Emmanuel Eisenberg conducted excavations in 1973[8]; he found Roman remains and even a coin of Vespasian dated to the year +72. New excavations carried out in 2001 established the existence of a Jewish village from the 1st century BC until around +70. The descriptions by Maria Valtorta (especially the episode of the Emmaus pilgrims)[9] therefore make highly credible the Franciscan site near Qubeibeh, as also asserted by Hans Hopfen since 1975, and as the most recent excavations tend to confirm! The distance between Emmaus and Jerusalem corresponds exactly to the sixty stadia mentioned by Saint Luke.
As for the reference to "the mountain," made by Maria Valtorta, it is found verbatim in the Talmud[10]: "from Beth-Horon to Emmaus is the mountain."
- See also "Destroyed village"[11]
Explore
• 31° 50’ 32’’ N / 35° 07’ 50’’ E
• +790m. Map 11 D2 no. 19
Notes and references
Article partially written from the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel Salton Maria Valtorta, by Jean-François Lavère.