Then he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. And he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus it behoved...
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from ...
“It is written,” he said to them, “’My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”New Living TranslationHe said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den...
as many have since, the great wealth to be had through heavy taxation. The tribe of Ephraim took great offense, picked up their marbles and huffed off to Samaria, just northwest of their homelands around Jerusalem. Nine other tribes went with them and formed...
and their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became unseen by them.Cross References Matthew 14:35And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;Luke 24:16But their eyes we...
They become subject to theories that fit their desire. Not true is the popular unbiblical saying, “Faith is blind.” A biblical definition of faith is based on the wide-open eyes of substance (confidence) and evidence (tangible). That great religious writer, Paul, who was on his way to...
16But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. 17And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? 18And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in...
The men were familiar with these writings, but now they had meaning about Christ (the long-awaited Messiah). Their eyes were opened, and their hearts were greatly encouraged by Jesus because they had heard Him and later looked across the table at Him! They were so amped up that they ran...
took bread, gave thanks, broke itand began to give it to them.31Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him,and he disappeared from their sight.32They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within uswhile he talked with us on the road and opened the Scripturesto us?”...
30 It was as he reclined at the table with them that he took the bread, blessed and broket it, and gave it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened,u and they recognized him, but he disappeared from their sight.v 32 They said to each other, “Weren’t our hearts burning within ...