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Today’s devotion is an excerpt from Jesus, Day by Day

Today’s Through the Bible Reading: Matthew 28:11-20; Luke 24:13-53; John 20:24- 21:25

“And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself.” Luke 24:27

Have you ever pictured yourself on the road to Emmaus, listening in as the risen Jesus, unrecognized by His bewildered and grieving disciples, explained to them the meaning of all that had taken place, from Moses through the prophets and to the crucifixion?

“And He said…‘What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad?...O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?’ And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.” Luke 24:25–27

Those most blessed of students in that most amazing of Bible studies readily conceded how their “heart burned within them while He opened to them the Scriptures” (Luke 24:32). Had they never read Isaiah 53 or Psalm 22 or Daniel 9? Certainly they had, but it wasn’t until Jesus Himself removed the veil from their eyes and gave them understanding that it began to make sense. As Bible commentator Matthew Henry wrote,

“Jesus Christ is himself the best expositor of scripture, particularly the scriptures concerning himself; and even after his resurrection it was in this way that he led people into the knowledge of the mystery concerning himself; not by advancing new notions independent upon the scripture, but by showing how the scripture was fulfilled, and turning them over to the study of it…In studying the scriptures, it is good to be methodical, and to take them in order; for the Old-Testament light shone gradually to the perfect day…”.[i]

May we open God’s Word and see Jesus! He is there from beginning to end.

[i] “Commentary on Luke 24 by Matthew Henry.” Blue Letter Bible, www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/mhc/luk/luk_024.cfm.