Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
But we hoped (hmeiv de hlpizomen). Imperfect active, we were hoping. Note emphasis in hmeiv (we).
Redeem (lutrousqai). From the bondage of Rome, no doubt.
Yea and beside all this (alla ge kai sun pasin toutoiv). Particles pile up to express their emotions.
Yea (alla here affirmative, as in verse Luke 24:22, not adversative) at least (ge) also (kai) together with all these things (sun pasin toutoiv). Like Pelion on Ossa with them in their perplexity.
Now the third day (trithn tauthn hmeran agei). A difficult idiom for the English. "One is keeping this a third day." And he is still dead and we are still without hope.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 24:21:
Mark 16:12
John 1:29
Acts 1:5
1 Corinthians 1:23
Titus 2:14
1 Peter 1:18
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