How is Cleopas connected with the death of Jesus? I have tried Cleopas NEAR Jesus. Any books possible are helpful as well.
How is Cleopas connected with the death of Jesus?
I would start with the Factbook article on Cleopas and see what your linked dictionaries say.
And the search string Cleopas NEAR Jesus finds all occurrences where both these names appear "near" each other (within about 40 characters). Was that what you intended?
Factbook was my first thought, I use it all the time & bought the expanded set. There's a thread on here with people who don't like it & others who don't use it. To each their own, but I happen to find it useful.
Not being excessively sardonic, but maybe ... ones Bible? A little familiarity.
This is interesting. If I didn't know who Cleopas was, I'd just search for his name in the bible (okay, if I was doing some seminary homework, I'd look into dictionaries and commentaries then).
And the search string Cleopas NEAR Jesus finds all occurrences where both these names appear "near" each other (within about 40 characters).
Actually it won't, if you do a bible search in the bible, since both NEAR and WITHIN 40 CHARS / 40 WORDS will work only within one verse, so you'd need to switch to Cleopas NEAR person:Jesus to catch the "him" etc. or - counterintuitively - switch to a book search within the bible to get a hit.
That's a good point - I might well do the same!
Thanks for clarifying this - and I think it makes the point I was trying to make much better than I did.
As I expect you know, in Logos 10 we can expand the "scope" of Bible searches to chapters (not verses) but even then the NEAR search doesn't get any hits whereas your person search does.
I was trying to encourage Christian to think about the searches he is using and to understand them better - but probably wasn't very clear.
Actually one of the sisters at my local church preached a lively message during our Good Friday service. She made some novel associations regarding the three Marys attending the crucifixion of our Lord.
The three Marys were Mary the mother of King Jesus, Mary Magdelene, and Mary the sister of Mary who was the wife of Cleopas.
The twist she put on this was that she associated the three Marys to the three gifts that the Magi brought to the birth of Jesus. She observed that the gold represented kingship (Mary mother of King Jesus) and the frankincense represented worship (Mary Magdalene who poured out her alabaster box in worship of our Savior) finally there was the myrrh which represented his death (Mary the wife of Cleopas the sister of Mary).
To my knowledge the name Cleopas and this Mary are not mentioned anywhere else in scripture. I'm writing from memory and therefore I can't quote scripture and verse. The last word was I think the third one where Jesus says "woman behold your son and son behold your mother" I may be paraphrasing, but you can easily check me with a simple search.
She wrapped up by exhorting the gathered to like these women stop bringing gifts to people who need us and start like these three Marys to start being the gift! Amazing.
Cleopas is mentioned in only one pericope in the Bible, in Luke 24. Some think maybe also in John 19:25, but my better sources state they're names of different origin and not the same person.
Accordingly, there is no reason to try restrict your research beyond "Cleopas" (e.g., with a NEAR construction.) He's relevant only as relates to one particular resurrection appearance of Jesus. There isn't going to be a ton of non-Jesus-related material that you need to filter out. (And, to be honest, any writing on him in extensive detail is going to be more speculative than anything.)
This is a search you should be able to manage on your own.
Actually one of the sisters at my local church preached a lively message during our Good Friday service. She made some novel associations regarding the three Marys attending the crucifixion of our Lord. The three Marys were Mary the mother of King Jesus, Mary Magdelene, and Mary the sister of Mary who was the wife of Cleopas. The twist she put on this was that she associated the three Marys to the three gifts that the Magi brought to the birth of Jesus. She observed that the gold represented kingship (Mary mother of King Jesus) and the frankincense represented worship (Mary Magdalene who poured out her alabaster box in worship of our Savior) finally there was the myrrh which represented his death (Mary the wife of Cleopas the sister of Mary). To my knowledge the name Cleopas and this Mary are not mentioned anywhere else in scripture. I'm writing from memory and therefore I can't quote scripture and verse. The last word was I think the third one where Jesus says "woman behold your son and son behold your mother" I may be paraphrasing, but you can easily check me with a simple search. She wrapped up by exhorting the gathered to like these women stop bringing gifts to people who need us and start like these three Marys to start being the gift! Amazing.
Wonderful sermon concept; thank you for sharing it!
The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary has a fairly in-depth article about the person and significance of Cleopas. And the article at Wikipedia contains a good overview of extra-biblical traditions.
