Luke 24:25. And he said to them. Something in Him led them to speak so freely of their perplexity; with a word He might now have turned their sorrow into joy, but He would give them thorough instruction. He answers, not in a tone of pity, but of rebuke, as one competent to teach them.

O foolish men, without understanding, unreceptive intellectually, and slow of heart, sluggish in the entire disposition.

To believe all, etc. They could not have been disciples without believing a part of prophecy, but they would have understood His death and confidently expected His resurrection, if they had believed ‘all.' Our Lord intimates that the slowness to believe was the ground of the want of understanding. Those slow to believe the Old Testament prophecies as a whole have been least apt to discover their Messianic meaning.

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Old Testament