Section 9
has hidden these things from the wise and in telligent and revealed them to babes. Then the Lord said that all things have been delivered to Him by the Father. Following this, He privately told the disciples that their eyes were blessed for seeing the things that they see. What are "these things," "all things," and "the things"? As we shall see, these all refer to the same things.
"These things" in verse 21, "all things" in verse 22, and "the things" in verses 23 and 24 are all related to the things involved in the inscribing of our names in the heavens. The in scribing of our names in the heavens involves a great deal. Actually, the fourteen Epistles of Paul are needed to describe what is involved in the inscribing of our names in the heavens. We should not expect to find a full explanation of this in the Gospel of Luke. This involves God's mystery, in particular the mystery of God, which is Christ, and the mystery of Christ, which is the church.
The word about these things, all things, and the things in Luke 10 may remind us of Paul's word in 1 Corinthians 2:9: "But even as it is writ ten, Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not come up in man's heart, how much God has prepared for those