Quote and Meditation: Was it not necessary?

“You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.”

— Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish writer, clergyman (1667-1745)

“Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter His glory? And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.”

— Luke 24:26-27