The Emmaus Road story continued..."were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the way?"
"...that same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem...they found the disciples gathered in one place."
The Emmaus Road story continued...the experience of the crucifixion of Jesus from the disciple's perspective. And then Luke's story of how the early church interpreted the cross in the pattern of the liturgy.
Jesus' mission is understood in retrospect...no one 'gets it' until after the fact.
Jesus says to Peter, "Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers."
Coming down from the Mount of Transfiguration into the demon possessed valley...Jesus tells his disciples "the Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands"...but they could not understand this saying.