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Here’s an excerpt from the blog post.

First, it becomes very clear from this chapter that the disciples did not yet realize who Jesus was. Not fully anyway. The two men on the roadway here say, "We had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel." Did you catch that "We had HOPED?" When Jesus died, they thought their hope of redemption was gone. They still didn't understand his words that he had to die and then be raised from the dead. That truth still escaped them. They still needed to come to an understanding of the Scriptures that foreshadowed Christ. Peter himself was still missing the whole truth.

Second, we can't miss the importance of Jesus opening up the mind of the disciples to understand the Scriptures. With the two men on the road, "Beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself." Then later with the rest of the disciples, "Everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled." Jesus came to fulfill the Scripture. We saw that in his birth and early years, and we saw that a couple of days ago in his death. We even saw that in Matthew 8 through his healings in the crowd. Still, somehow, we get to Matthew 5 and think that when Jesus said he didn't come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it, he must have meant the rules.

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