Context for Easter Morning, from Luke chapter 24, verses 44 through 48: “Then He said, ‘When I was with you before, I told you  that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms must be fulfilled.’

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. And He said, ‘Yes, it was written long ago that the Messiah would suffer and die and rise from the dead on the third day.

‘It was also written that this message would be proclaimed in the authority of His name to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem: “There is forgiveness of sins for all who repent.”

‘You are witnesses of all these things.’

— New Living Translation