¹⁵ You have been taught the holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trusting in Christ Jesus.

⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

²⁰ Above all, you must realize that no prophecy in Scripture ever came from the prophet’s own understanding,^{[a] 21} or from human initiative. No, those prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit, and they spoke from God.

³ I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. ⁴ He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.

²⁷ Then Jesus took them through the writings of Moses and all the prophets, explaining from all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

²⁹ Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God.

⁵ I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you.

³⁹ “You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me! ⁴⁰ Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life.