the afternoon’s misery on the Emmaus road with his Son’s exposition of Scripture in the power of the Spirit. And now he meets the evening’s confusion in the upper room with the words of the Son, the expounding of Scripture, and an unfolding of the future as well as of the past. Jesus speaks not only of his crucifixion and resurrection but of the coming gift of the Spirit and the subsequent career of the gospel. Having brought coherence into human life, and Christ into the human heart, the word of
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