Luke 24: The Resurrection

Jesus, resurrected, says to two disciples on the road to Emmaus:

25-27 Then he said to them, “So thick-headed! So slow-hearted! Why can’t you simply believe all that the prophets said? Don’t you see that these things had to happen, that the Messiah had to suffer and only then enter into his glory?” Then he started at the beginning, with the Books of Moses, and went on through all the Prophets, pointing out everything in the Scriptures that referred to him.

It is somehow obscure that the Messiah had to suffer and only then enter into glory because the Old Testament doesn't explain it so clearly. The suffering serve in Isaiah 53 refers to the Messiah? It is very easy to say so after reading the New Testament, but it is difficult to understand reading only the Old Testament. 

Previously the two disciples had said:

19-21 They said, “The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene. He was a man of God, a prophet, dynamic in work and word, blessed by both God and all the people. Then our high priests and leaders betrayed him, got him sentenced to death, and crucified him. And we had our hopes up that he was the One, the One about to deliver Israel.

For them, the Messiah was the One who would deliver Israel (from Rome). Jesus was crucified but he didn't have done it, so these two disciples was near to conclude that Jesus was not the Messiah. There was the possibility that Jesus had risen from the death, but it was not so clear.

For we, Christians, Jesus delivered us from the death - the ultimately great enemy.