Fourty Day Crash Course

What transpired... was a forty-day intersession in which Jesus gave a crash course on Old Testament hermeneutics, in how to interpret the Old Testament as a whole from a postresurrection perspective. In doing that, his all-inclusive concern was to point out how the history of redemption, having reached the point that it had, is to be understood. This interpretive activity consisted in showing that his earthly ministry, culminating in his death and resurrection, is the focus of Scripture, the sum and substance of the Old Testament, designated here by its three main divisions: the Law of Moses, Prophets, and Psalms (the latter standing, part for whole, for the Writings).

 

Richard Gaffin, In the Fullness of Time (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022), 98