The word “grace” catches the delightful “salvation” Peter had described in 1 Peter 1:3–9, the wealth that was inexpressible and filled with glory. The prophets wanted badly to get an accurate sense of how and when this salvation was to happen. Inasmuch as it “was to be yours” instead of “theirs,” the prophets could not grasp it. The pronoun “yours,” of course, refers to Peter’s readers around the year AD 60, the exiles of the Dispersion, whereas the prophets lived hundreds of years before that. It was God’s good pleasure to give clarity to the details of this salvation through the events that happened between “their” time and “your” time, specifically through the events that happened to Jesus Christ.
10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully,