Luke 24:17-18  He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” They stood still, their faces downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

Going back to the  Gospel reading for the Third Sunday of Easter one more time, I want you to consider how the Emmaus disciples reacted to the “stranger” who walked up to them on the road. Jesus asked them what they were discussing. Cleopas replied “Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?”  

Recently I heard someone say that in modern slang, Cleopas was saying, “Dude, or Bruh, what rock have you been hiding under?” We use that kind of language when we encounter someone who doesn’t know what is going on around him or her.

Jesus wasn’t hiding, and He wasn’t under a rock. He was purposely BEHIND a rock rolled over the entrance to His tomb. He went to death willingly in order to make payment for the sins of the world, and then He was buried in a tomb with a stone sealed over the entrance. His time in the tomb was not hiding, but to show that He was truly dead, further proof that He had made the necessary sacrifice for sin. And then on Easter, that rock, that stone, was rolled away, and our Lord was raised from the dead. He proclaimed the victory over sin and death and made it available to everyone. Just believe.