The risen Jesus appears to the assembled disciples in Jerusalem and opens a Bible study that has no parallel: he walks them through the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms and shows them how all of it points to himself. This is the hermeneutical key to the entire Old Testament, given by the subject of that testament. He does not read the texts differently than they were written; he shows what they were always building toward. The three divisions he names — Law, Prophets, Psalms — are the three sections of the Hebrew canon (Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim). He is claiming the whole thing.

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BibleProject

Tim Mackie and Jon Collins, co-founders of BibleProject (est. 2014)

BibleProject was founded on the conviction that Luke 24:44-45 is a reading instruction, not merely a resurrection appearance. Their entire output — the videos, the podcasts, the thematic word studies — is an attempt to read the Bible the way the risen Jesus taught his disciples to read it: as one unified narrative that finds its center in the Messiah. They begin their Bible reading framework with the question Jesus answers in this room: what is the Bible actually about?

The phrase “he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures” is the most important statement in Luke's Gospel about how biblical literacy works. Understanding the Scriptures is not primarily a matter of technique (though good methods help). It is a gift of the opened mind, granted by the one who fulfilled the texts. BibleProject's thesis is that this opening is still available — not in the same post-resurrection form, but through the Spirit who takes what belongs to Jesus and shows it to us (John 16:14). You read the Old Testament asking where Jesus is; the Spirit answers.