“Slow of Heart to Believe”

Such was their account of the things that had happened in Jerusalem, and their own thoughts about them. Jesus heard them and said, "O fools!" They saw what the chief priests had done, but they did not see what God had done. They were not walking by faith; they were slow of heart to believe all that the prophets had spoken. It was there they were to learn Christ and the purposes of God about Him, and so "beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.”
The things concerning Christ can only be learned in the Scriptures, not in the things happening in any place, for we walk by faith, not by sight. You may truly see an important act in the workings of God, and yet be quite ignorant of the purpose of God in that act, or what further result will follow. All these must be learned of God and He has set them, so far as He sees we need to know them, in His Scriptures. He has given His Spirit to show Christ and the connection of these things with the glory of Christ, and this without the aid of the things of sight.
“Their eyes were holden that they should not know Him," because their walk was to be by faith, and not by sight. There must be the exclusion of sight in our walk of faith. It is in the Scriptures that the things concerning Him are to be learned, and "The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart." Rom. 10:8.