Scriptures

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?

Every day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me. But this has happened that the Scriptures would be fulfilled.”

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.

They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,

As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the Scriptures.

For he powerfully refuted the Jews in public debate, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

…the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,

For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

…that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.