Jesus thought the Old Testament spoke about him

Jesus thought the Old Testament spoke about him

Jesus said:

Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

That verse from the New Testament is about Jesus telling us that the Old Testament is about him. He referred to this verse:

Ps 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me,

He was speaking to the scholars of his day, but he was telling them that they did not know what they were talking about. (He also made the claim that the whole volume of the Old Testament spoke of him.)

If the Hebrew scholars in the days of Jesus did not know how to read the scriptures, what hope do we have of understanding them? Well, we should have a lot of hope of understanding them. That's why the New Testament is there. Jesus and the New Testament authors attempted to teach us to read the Old Testament for ourselves.