Luke 24:45 Cross References - NSB

⁴⁵ He opened their minds that they might understand the scriptures.

¹¹ Jehovah said to him: »Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Jehovah?

¹⁶ he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,

¹⁸ Open my eyes that I may observe wonderful things from your law.

¹⁰ Jehovah has made you drowsy. He shut your eyes in a deep sleep you prophets and visionaries. He overwhelmed your leaders. ¹¹ His message is like a sealed book to you. You say to someone read this out loud. And they respond, »We cannot read it, because it is sealed.« ¹² The illiterate say: »We cannot read it because we do not know how to read.«

¹⁸ The deaf will be able to hear the words of the book read to them. The blind will be freed from gloom and darkness. ¹⁹ The meek, the poor, and the needy will celebrate and shout because of Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel.

³² They said to each other: »Were our hearts not burning within us? When he spoke to us in the way and opened the scriptures to us?«

¹⁴ A woman named Lydia who was a seller of purple came from Thyatira. She worshipped God because God opened her heart to listen to the things spoken by Paul.

¹⁸ »To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. They may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

¹⁴ Their minds were blinded. Until this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It is not revealed to them that Christ voided it. ¹⁵ But to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart. ¹⁶ When one turns to God, the veil is taken away. ¹⁷ Now God is the Spirit and where the Spirit of God is, there is liberty (freedom). ¹⁸ We all, with unveiled face, behold as in a mirror the glory of God and are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, exactly as from God’s Spirit.

⁴ The god of this age (world) (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement) has blinded the minds of unbelievers that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them. ⁵ We do not preach about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord. We are your servants for Jesus' sake. ⁶ God said: Light will shine out of darkness. He shined in our hearts. He gave the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face (presence) ((person) of Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ For this reason it says: »Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.«

⁷ »To the angel of the congregation in Philadelphia write: He says these things. He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no man shuts, and shuts and no man opens.

²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding. We know him that is true for we are in him who is true, [and] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and everlasting life.