communed and reasoned - exchanged views and feelings, weighing afresh all the facts, as detailed in Luk 24:18-24.
drew near - coming up behind them as from Jerusalem.
eyes holden - Partly He was “in another form” (Mar 16:12), and partly there seems to have been an operation on their own vision; though certainly, as they did not believe that He was alive, His company as a fellow traveler was the last thing they would expect,