Then He opened their minds so that they might continue to understand the Scriptures,

When the high priests and the Pharisees heard His stories, they knew that He was speaking about them,

but, as the Scripture says: "They will see who were never told of Him, and they will understand who have not heard."

which reached you, and since it is bearing fruit and growing among you, just as it is all over the world, from the day you first heard of God's favor and in reality came to know it,

that their hearts may be encouraged, by having been knit together in love and by having atoned to the full assurance of understanding, so that they may finally reach the fullest knowledge of the open secret, Christ Himself,