Signs in John's Gospel - The Lamp Broadcast

The Word Made Flesh 39
This is the manner in which John begins His gospel, inseparably
identifying the Son not only with the Father from Gen. 1:1
but with the whole of the Old Testament Scriptures.
(Refer to the “Introduction” to this book for more information on
that revealed through Moses and that revealed through John some 1,500
years later in the preceding respect.)
The Written Word
“Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all
that the prophets have spoken:
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into
his glory?
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto
them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself…
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto
you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which
were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms,
concerning me” (Luke 24:25-27, 44).
Jesus, shortly after His resurrection, on the same day that
He was raised from the dead, walked and communed with two
disciples enroute to Emmaus. And, though the events surrounding
the crucifixion of the One Whom they had believed to be the
Christ was still uppermost in their minds, something was preventing
them from recognizing Him at this time (vv. 17-24). Though
their thoughts were centered upon the very One in their midst,
they didn’t know Him (vv. 16, 17).
Why had they failed to recognize Christ at this time?
The answer is very simple, and it is given in the text. These
two disciples had failed to recognize the One standing in their
midst because, in the words of the very One speaking to them,
they did not “believe all that the prophets” had recorded in the
Old Testament Scriptures (Luke 24:25b). They did not know their
own Scriptures (vv. 26, 27). They had not adequately availed
themselves of the word picture which God had previously provided
of Himself, of His Son.