I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.

All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame.

“Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save.

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.

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

Jesus replied, “You are in error 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 in this way?”

Haven’t you read this passage of Scripture: “‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;

Jesus replied, “Are you not in error 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 the Scriptures must be fulfilled.”

He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.

After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,

Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David’s descendants and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?”

If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside—

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

“I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned against me.’

While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.

“Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.” This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said, “They divided my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.” So this is what the soldiers did.

The Death of Jesus

Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,”

and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”