How to read Scripture the way Jesus taught His disciples

How to read Scripture the way Jesus taught His disciples [∞]

Jesus didn’t leave His disciples with a theology textbook—He opened their eyes to see the Scriptures in a new light. After His resurrection, He didn’t perform a miracle to prove who He was. Instead, He walked them through the Old Testament and showed how every part of it was about Him (Luke 24:27).

This wasn’t a new message—it was a new lens. Jesus taught them to read Scripture not just as history or law, but as a living testimony of His death, resurrection, and glory. He revealed that the stories, symbols, and even the structure of Scripture had all been preparing the way for the Messiah.

To read Scripture the way Jesus taught His disciples is to:

• Look for Christ at the center of every passage.
• Recognize that the Old Testament foreshadows the New.
• Understand that the deeper meaning—the sensus plenior—was planted from the beginning and revealed in Him.
• Embrace that God's Word speaks in patterns, riddles, and parables that come alive through the Spirit.

This section will guide you into that way of reading:

• One that sees Scripture not as a flat text, but a multi-layered revelation .
• One that recognizes how Jesus is hidden in the text, waiting to be unveiled .
• One that brings together the literal and the spiritual, the past and the eternal .

If you’ve ever read the Bible and felt like something deeper was just beneath the surface—

you were right.

Let’s learn to read it the way Jesus intended: with eyes open, hearts burning, and Christ revealed.