The key to understand this story is who is Cleopas? I believe and had the references that indicate him to be the grandfather of John and James, Zebedee’s sons. He had other sons and daughter too. He may have been the husband of Mary Salome. My computer crashed and l lost a lot of research. The book that I got my source was written by a priest describing the Mass and was late 19th century. Then his references which I went to may have been Eldersheim? He also seems to be the brother of St. Joseph. This priest had worked it out and explained the mystery of Christ’s brothers who were his cousins in our kinship system. The Hebrew kinship system has no word for cousin. Remember Jacob married his uncle’s daughter. However marriage to his mother’s sister’s daughters would have been prohibited. We follow the Hawaiian kinship system which is different from the Hebrew kinship system of the Bible. Once this is established it blows away the conjecture of that Jesus’s brothers were his mother’s childern. Then everything comes together seamlessly and Holy Tradition is verified. I just checked my backups don’t have my notes.
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So it is no mystery as to why Christ would have appeared to him to spread the Good News. They knew Jesus died on the Cross. They didn't expect to see Him.
There is a "new" version of the Bible that rewrites parts of Isaiah's Book in the Old Testament which has been accepted since the time of St. Jerome.
It was the Risen Lord who met them. One of the two was Cleopas or Cleophas. I believe this man to be a brother of St. Joseph. I read an old book written by a priest on the Mass. Cleophas may have been the father of Zebedee the father of James and John. Well if one studies the Gospels, there are some small contradictions that can be worked out easily. I lost my work when I installed Windows XP somehow. Well this priest worked out the geneology of Cleophas or Cleopas and had a solution that clearly verified Holy Tradition preserving the perpetual viginity of the Blessed Mother and identifying Jesus’ brothers. We follow the Hawian kinship system. The kinship system in the Bible is of course the Hebrew kinship system where some of what we call cousins are called brothers.
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I will look for the book and the missing information.
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