In this passage, Jesus appears to His disciples right before His Ascension to Heaven, opening their minds & giving them immediate knowledge and comprehension into the wisdom of God’s Word. But in doing so Jesus also removed their Spiritual blindness & slowness of heart that had been hindering their understanding & acceptance of the Gospel Message. (This illumination of the Scriptures by Jesus was before the Day of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit’s arrival.) Paul elaborates about this in Ephesians 1:17-18 when he writes that God will give Believers the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, that we may know Him better…and that the eyes of our hearts may be enlightened in order that we may know the hope to which He has called us. This illumination by the Holy Spirit thus enables us to hear, receive, and properly understand the Message of God’s Word as He opens our minds.
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