²⁵ Then Jesus said to them, “You are such foolish, foolish people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the Scriptures! ²⁶ Wasn’t it clearly predicted by the prophets that the Messiah would have to suffer all these things before entering his time of glory?”

²⁷ Then Jesus quoted them passage after passage from the writings of the prophets, beginning with the book of Genesis and going right on through the Scriptures, explaining what the passages meant and what they said about himself.