The Master opens the Scriptures

"Then he said to them: O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have said! Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things, and for him to enter into their glory? And starting from Moses, and continuing through all the prophets, he declared to them in all the Scriptures what they said about him" (Luke 24:25-27).

Thus speaks the strange walker. The disciples' eyes are still veiled. It is not recorded here what Scriptures he declared to them; it simply says that it started from Moses.

Perhaps he has shown you the passage in which Moses made a bronze serpent and placed it on a raised pole, so that the one who was bitten would look up. "Thus the Christ had to be lifted up, like the bronze serpent, so that whoever looked at him would be saved. Don't you understand it?"

Or perhaps he quoted Moses when he said: "A prophet from the midst of you, from your brothers, like me, the Lord your God will raise up for you; you will listen to him" (Deut. 18:15). This is the prophet to be heard! How many other passages will Jesus have shown them through all the prophets!

He surely pointed it out to them in Isaiah: "A child is born to us…and the principality is on his shoulder" (9:6). Or Isaiah 53: "Like a lamb he was led to the slaughter... he was silent, and did not open his mouth... When he has put his life in atonement for sin, he will see lineage, he will live for long days" (vs. 7, 10). He will live! That's what Isaiah said, that he would lay down his life, he would be led to the slaughter like a lamb, but that meant their salvation.

"Fools, slow of heart to believe!". This is the misfortune of man: his heart is slow to believe. Man wants to see with his eyes, he wants to touch, he always wants to move in the plane of what is tangible, what is visible; if not, the heart that is slow does not want to believe.

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