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LUKE 24:46 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 24:45Luke 24:47
“And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:”
He told them, this is what is written: the Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day — this is what is written: the scriptural necessity. The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day: the two-part messianic testimony of the Scriptures — the suffering Servant and the rising Son of Man.

Church Fathers on Luke 24:46

After having presented Himself to be seen with the eye, and handled with hands, and having brought to their minds the Scriptures of the law, He next opened their understanding that they should understand what was read.

Bede · 8th century

Otherwise, how would their agitated and perplexed minds have learnt the mystery of Christ. But He taught them by His words; for it follows, And said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, that is, by the wood of the Cross.

Theophylact · 11th century

For it was said, Ask of me, and I will give you the heathen for your inheritance. But it was necessary that those who were converted from the Gentiles should be purged from a certain stain and defilement through His virtue, being as it were corrupted by the evil of the worship of devils, and as lately converted from an abominable and unchaste life. And therefore He says that it behoves that first repentance should be preached, but next, remission of sins, to all nations. For…

Eusebius of Caesarea · 4th century
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