But we trusted. — The pronoun is emphatic. “We, the disciples, were hoping...,”whatever might be the judgment of others.
Which should have redeemed Israel. — More exactly, He that is about to redeem... The two travellers belonged apparently to those who now, as at the time of the Nativity, were waiting for redemption in Jerusalem (Luke 2:38).
To day is the third day. — We note how naturally the disciples fall, from the first, into this method of describing the interval since the Crucifixion.