We discuss the underlying meaning of the story commonly referred to as “The Road to Emmaus” from Luke 24. While saddened over the recent death of Jesus, the disciples anguish was primarily focused on the fact that Jesus, whom they believed to be the Messiah, the one who would deliver them from Roman occupation, had been utterly defeated. Looking to take matters into their own hands and fight back against the Romans as the Maccabees 150 years earlier, the two disciples headed down the road and encountered Jesus along the way. Jesus teaches them that the Messiah did not come to push back against the Romans with force, but rather to convert them through the peaceful message of the Gospel.