He Opened Their Understanding

His post-resurrection conversation on the way to Emmaus cleared away many difficulties for those to whom it was addressed: "Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?" Luke 24:26. His visit to Jerusalem later in the same day cleared up the perplexities of others. "Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures, and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations." vv. 45-47. Henceforth these men were mighty witnesses to a crucified Savior while looking and waiting for His return from heaven as a glorious King.