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“Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?” (Luke 24:26).
The words in today’s verse were said to two people who were walking from Jerusalem to the village of Emmaus, a distance of about 7 ½ miles (12 km.). They were discouraged, for they had really believed that the Lord Jesus was the Messiah, and now that He had been crucified, they thought that all their hopes were gone.
But the Lord Jesus came along beside them and walked with them, and started talking to them. When they told Him why they were sad, He began to show them from the Old Testament Scriptures why He had to suffer, and then enter into His glory. It was all there in the Old Testament, but many of the Jews were so impressed with the thought of a glorious kingdom that they did not notice the verses that spoke clearly of the death of the Lord Jesus.
The death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus were all part of God’s plan, long before even the world was made. He had to suffer for sin, and die, but that was not the end. He rose from the dead and is now seated in heaven at the right hand of God.
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