And in the yards there, even, when they put this rag over His face, and some hit Him and smacked Him. Said, "If You be a prophet, tell us who hit You now, and we'll believe You." Same thing, the same old Devil that was up there, all along, when He was tempted, when He first started into His ministry. Said, "If Thou be the Son of God, command these stones to be turned to bread." Same one. And them priests and rabbis up there, said, "If You are the Christ, come down off the Cross and prove it to us." He could have done it. He knowed who hit Him, but He don't clown for nobody.

He was the Word, and He's still the Word. Always was the Word, and He remains the Word. And look back, they could have seen That, but they didn't.

They were, notice, on the road over. They were what? They were talking about Him when He appeared to them.

Now, that's the way He comes, is when you are talking about Him. The trouble, today, we talk about so many other things besides Him. We always talking about what we got to do, and some business deal, or the washing has got to be done, or this kind of detergent you ought to use. When, you ought to be giving Him praise and glory. "There is where our treasures is, there our heart is also."

They should have recognized Him, but they never. And so is it today. Yet, the Scripture said.

He revealed to them the Scripture promises concerning Hisself for that age. Remember, He begin with the beginning. He said, "O fools and slow of heart." He explained to them the Scriptures. And after the Scriptures had been preached to them, yet they didn't recognize Him. If that isn't a modern congregation, I don't know. They, the Scriptures, explained to them, and still they didn't get it. They was walking right along, claimed to be His disciples. Still, they never recognized Him, after He had done told them the Scripture for that age, where God had lotted.

He said, "Don't you know that Christ should have suffered these things, and entered into His glory and raised again?" They should have noticed. Said, "Know you not all the prophets said about Christ?" And He begin back there, and explained the whole thing down to them, and laid it down to them. And still they never recognized it, after laying the Scripture out just as perfect as It could be. And them walking around It, supposed to be His disciples, "Uh, oh, is That so? Is That so?" And, yet, He was that Scripture fulfilled, standing there, and still they didn't get it.

Now that's just a very good picture of the day we're living. I don't say that bad. I say that for the Truth. That's exactly right.

William Branham, sermon «And When Their Eyes Were Opened, They Knew Him»
https://en.branham.ru/sermons/64-0416