44
He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.”
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All chapters Luke 24:44–49
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45
Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
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Verse 45. If, after all the extraordinary opportunities of instruction, which the apostles had had from the mouth of our divine Saviour, it was still necessary that he should instil into them a new light, by opening their minds to understand the Scriptures; what are we to think of the presumptuous attempts of the numerous tribe of modern self-inspired interpreters, who are always ready to descant on the word of the Lord; though so perfectly ignorant that their authority, so far from being admitted, would be laughed to scorn, were they to attempt to explain the slightest difficulty, on the most indifferent subject of profane literature? To such a degree has the spirit of seduction spread itself at the present day! A.
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46
He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
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47
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
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Verse 47. Beginning at Jerusalem. The sense is, that they were first to preach to the Jews, and afterwards to all nations. Witham.
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48
You are witnesses of these things.
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49
Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”
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Verse 49. The promise of my Father; that is the Holy Ghost, whom Christ had promised that his Father and he would send. John 14:26 and 17:7. Witham.
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