Luke 24:27

‘And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.'

And then to their amazement this Stranger began to give them a lesson from the Scriptures. Commencing with Genesis to Deuteronomy, and then going on to the prophets, He interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself (including those concerning the Messiah, taking the word in its widest sense as signifying the Promised One). The words suggest a considerable amount of material, taken from the whole range of Scripture, for Jesus saw the whole of the Old Testament as pointing forward to Himself (see John 5:39; John 5:46). But some of what He said we can understand from the subsequent preaching of the Apostles. It would almost certainly, for example, have included Genesis 12:3 (see Acts 3:25); Deuteronomy 18:15 (see Acts 3:22); 2 Samuel 7:11; 2 Samuel 7:16 (see Acts 3:24); Isaiah 35:5 with Psalms 61:1 (see Acts 4:30); Psa 52:13-53:12 (see Acts 3:13; Acts 8:30); Psalms 2 (see Acts 4:25; Acts 13:33); Luke 16:8 (see Acts 2:25); Psalms 110:1 (see Acts 2:14); Psalms 118:22 (see Luke 20:17; Acts 4:10), for it is incidents like this that explain how the Apostles became so enlightened about these Scriptures in so short a time (compare also Luke 24:45).

And to those we may probably add some of the following Genesis 3:15 (see Romans 16:20); Psalms 22:1 (see Matthew 27:46); Luke 22:6 (see Matthew 27:35); Isaiah 40 (see Luke 4:4): Isaiah 42:1 (see Matthew 12:17); Isaiah 49:1 (see Acts 13:47); Isaiah 50:4 (see Matthew 26:67; Matthew 27:30); Daniel 7:13 (see for example Luke 22:69; Matthew 16:28; Matthew 26:64); Zechariah 13:7 (see Matthew 26:31); Malachi 3:1 (see Matthew 11:10); as well as a number of other Scriptures. And we can no doubt add to these all the scriptures that spoke of the Old Testament ritual, the offerings, sacrifices and ordinances that pointed forward to what He had come to do, and also recognise that, as Stephen did in Acts 7, He may well have seen Old Testament figures as forerunners of Himself. For He was the last Adam, the second Man (1 Corinthians 15:45); the greater than Abraham who rejoiced to see His day (John 8:56); the new prophet like Moses (Acts 3:22; Hebrews 3:1 to Hebrews 4:13); the High Priest more powerfully effective than Aaron (Hebrews 4:14 to Hebrews 5:10; Hebrews 7:1 to Hebrews 9:28); the mightier conqueror than Joshua/Jesus (Hebrews 4:8), and above all great David's greater Son (Luke 1:32). All the mighty men of God by their lives and achievements had pointed forward to Him, and were completed in Him, as indeed are we (Hebrews 11:40 to Hebrews 12:3).