1 Peter 1:10

‘Concerning which salvation the prophets searched intently and enquired diligently, who prophesied of the grace that (should come) to you.'

This salvation which is on offer is not something newfangled. It is the salvation of which the Old Testament prophets spoke in the past, and which they had put a great deal of effort into understanding. And it is they whose eyes were opened, and who prophesied of this wondrous gracious activity of God which we in the church, both ex-Jews and ex-Gentiles, now experience (see for example Isaiah 42:6; Isaiah 49:6). They had seen the wider vision of what the grace of God could do. To Peter the ‘church age' was not a mystery hidden from the prophets, but was central to their message. In Peter's eyes we, and what we are experiencing, are the fulfilment of their hopes.

‘The grace that (should come) to you.' Literally ‘the grace unto (eis) you'. A verb has to be read in. They prophesied of the undeserved favour and saving activity of God that was to come. It is grace to both Jews and Gentiles. This ‘grace unto you' is the consequence of ‘the sufferings unto Christ' (1 Peter 1:11).