In today’s first reading, Saint Paul reminds Saint Timothy that not only is Jesus descended from King David, but that he is indeed risen from the dead. This is an allusion to the dual nature in Christ: human and divine. Yet it is also more than that. It is a reaffirmation that the Scriptures had been fulfilled and therefore we ought to rejoice in knowing that God always keeps his word. We recall that Jesus himself told the disciples on the road to Emmaus, in his resurrected form, and showed them where in scripture the prophecies concerning his passion, death and resurrection were to be found, and that therefore we should be of heart that Jesus is indeed, the truth, the way and the life.