Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 24:21

21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: And beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.

It is from hence evident, that as yet they neither had a true Notion of Christ as God-man in one Person, nor yet of the Messiah, but still remain'd in an opinion of a Temporal Deliverance, to be effected for the Jews by the Messiah, when he should come. The Words also shewed a great weakness in the Disciples Faith as to Christ they speak as if they were quite out of Breath, and their Faith began to fail. We were say they once of the mind, and maintained some Hope that this Iesus of Nazareth, had been he whom God had designed for the Messiah, and now it is the third Day since these things were done. This mention of the third Day, is a good Argument to prove that these were some old Disciples of Christ, who had taken notice of his Promise or Prophecy, that he should Rise again the third Day, Chap. 18.33. They ought to have had patience till Night, and to have considered, that tho the third Day were began, yet it was not yet past.

Marginal references: A[illegible: 1 letter]ts 1.6.