Emma-us or Emmaus
(warm baths), the village to which the two disciples were going when our Lord appeared to them on the way, on the day of his resurrection. Lu 24:13 Luke makes its distance from Jerusalem sixty stadia (Authorized Version "threescore furlongs"), or about 7 1/2 miles; and Josephus mentions "a village called Emmaus" at the same distance. The site of Emmaus remains yet to be identified.
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