Finding Jesus in the Old Testament

“Do you really grasp what you are reading?" "How can I," the man replied,"unless someone explains it to me?" Acts 8:30-31

Philip was one of the seven men, along with Stephen, who were chosen to distribute bread to the widows and the community. Like Stephen, it was important to him, not only to give bread, but also to share the bread of life. In this chapter of Acts, he is instructed by an angel to go to the desert. There he meets an Ethiopian eunuch, a treasurer of the Queen of that country. This man was reading from the Book of Isaiah: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, ​​​​and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, ​​​​​so he opened not his mouth. ​In his humiliation justice was denied him. ​​​​Who will tell of his posterity? ​​​​​For his life is taken from the earth.”

Philip asked him if he understood. “How can I unless someone explains it to me?" the man answered. Philip then showed him how this passage was about Jesus. Sprinkled throughout the Old Testament are passages like this that illuminates Jesus. In Luke 24:27, on the road to Emmaus, Jesus told Cleopas and another of His followers, what was said in the Scriptures about Himself. He began from Moses and the Prophets, and it was so fascinating that they asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

If we take the time to search the Old Testament for those passages Jesus talked about , it will be like finding living water in the desert!