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?
Parallel translations
- WEB They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”
- BSB 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?”
- NKJV And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”
- NASB They said to one another, “Were our hearts not burning within us when He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?”
- NLT They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us as he talked with us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?”
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Quick answer
The two realize their hearts had burned while Jesus expounded the Scriptures on the road. Encountering Christ in the word kindles living faith and joy.
Overview
Looking back, the disciples recognize that the warmth they felt came from Jesus opening the Scriptures to them. The burning heart describes the inward effect of God's word rightly understood and applied. Their experience commends Christ-centered reading of Scripture as the means by which the Spirit warms and assures believers.
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- Luke 24:45Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
- Jer 23:29Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
- Heb 4:12For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
- Ps 39:3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
- Jer 20:9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
- Jer 15:16Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
- Prov 27:17Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
- John 6:63It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
- Acts 17:2–3And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
- Acts 28:23And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
- Ps 104:34My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
- Isa 50:4The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
- Prov 27:9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
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