When Cleopas and another disciple of Jesus finished their dismal recount of Jesus’ Passion, Jesus harshly rebuked them. “How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!” Faith (belief) was not only their problem, but all the disciples’ problem. They did not believe what the prophets spoke of Jesus. They held onto their own understanding of Scriptures. The yeast of the Pharisees and teachers of the law spoiled them.
No better way to know and understand the Son of God than to prayerfully study the Bible through the power of the Holy Spirit. Study is not just some part of the Bible, according to Jesus here. Study is all the Bible. Too many either now or at the Judgement (Bema) set of Jesus will be harshly rebuked because their Bible is harshly ever recognized, let alone opened up and read. How foolish.
