What did the disciples finally understand after Jesus opened their understanding of the Scriptures?
After Jesus opened their understanding, the disciples grasped that the Son of God had to come in the flesh, suffer, die, shed His blood as the supreme sacrifice for men's sin, and be raised from the dead. The whole picture came together for them.
Les explains that after Jesus said all things written in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms concerning Him must be fulfilled, He opened their understanding so they might understand the Scriptures. Then it all fell in place: the Son of God must come in the flesh, suffer, die, shed His blood as the supreme sacrifice for men's sin, and be raised from the dead. They now understood it all, and the whole picture came together. Just before this, He ate broiled fish and honeycomb in their view to prove He was a visible resurrected Person with physical attributes, even able to eat.
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
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What did the disciples begin to see about the Old Testament after Jesus opened their understanding?
When Jesus opened the disciples' understanding, they saw the entire Old Testament as a program that had been unfolding.