Your father Abraham rejoiced that he should see My day, and he saw it and he was glad."

These all died according to faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off and welcoming [them], and confessing that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

And all these, having obtained witness through their faith, did not receive the promise,

Concerning this salvation the prophets have sought out and inquired carefully, having prophesied of the grace [that would come] to you,

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ in them was revealing when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories which were to follow: