Luke 24:27 - Exposition

And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. The three divisions, the Pentateuch (Moses), the prophets, and all the Scriptures, cover the whole Old Testament received then in the same words as we possess them now. The Lord's proofs of what he asserted he drew from the whole series of writings, rapidly glancing over the long many-coloured roll called the Old Testament. "Jesus had before him a grand field, from the Protevangelium, the first great Gospel of Genesis, down to Malachi. In studying the Scriptures for himself, he had found himself in them everywhere ( John 5:39 , John 5:40 )' (Godet). The things concerning himself. The Scriptures which the Lord probably referred to specially were the promise to Eve ( Genesis 3:15 ); the promise to Abraham ( Genesis 22:18 ); the Paschal lamb ( Exodus 12:1-51 .); the scapegoat (Le 16:1-34); the brazen serpent ( Numbers 21:9 ); the greater Prophet ( Deuteronomy 18:15 ); the star and sceptre ( Numbers 24:17 ); the smitten rock ( Numbers 20:11 ; 1 Corinthians 10:4 ), etc.; Immanuel ( Isaiah 7:14 ); "Unto us a Child is born," etc. ( Isaiah 9:6 , Isaiah 9:7 ); the good Shepherd ( Isaiah 40:10 , Isaiah 40:11 ); the meek Sufferer ( Isaiah 50:6 ); he who bore our griefs ( Isaiah 53:4 , Isaiah 53:5 ); the Branch ( Jeremiah 23:1-40 . 5; Jeremiah 33:14 , Jeremiah 33:15 ); the Heir of David ( Ezekiel 34:23 ); the Ruler from Bethlehem ( Micah 5:2 ); the Branch ( Zechariah 6:12 ); the lowly King ( Zechariah 9:9 ); the pierced Victim ( Zechariah 12:10 ); the smitten Shepherd ( Zechariah 13:7 ); the messenger of the covenant ( Malachi 3:1 ); the Sun of Righteousness ( Malachi 4:2 ); and no doubt many other passages. Dr. Davison, in his book on prophecy, pp. 266-287, shows that there is not one of the prophets without some distinct reference to Christ, except Nahum, Jonah (who was himself a type and prophetic sign), and Habakkuk, who, however, uses the memorable words quoted in Romans 1:17 . To these we must add references to several of the psalms, notably to the sixteenth and twenty-second, where sufferings and death are spoken of as Belonging to the perfect picture of the Servant of the Lord and the ideal King. His hearers would know well how strangely the agony of Calvary was foreshadowed in those vivid word-pictures he called before their memories in the course of that six-mile walk from Jerusalem to Emmaus.