But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone.’”

Jesus replied, “The Scriptures say, ‘You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”

For the Scriptures say, ‘He will order his angels to protect and guard you.

Jesus responded, “The Scriptures also say, ‘You must not test the Lord your God.’”

When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures.

Jesus replied, “Haven’t you read in the Scriptures what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

John is the man to whom the Scriptures refer when they say, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, and he will prepare your way before you.’

He replied, “You are permitted to understand the secrets of the Kingdom of God. But I use parables to teach the others so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled: ‘When they look, they won’t really see. When they hear, they won’t understand.’

He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves.”

For those will be days of God’s vengeance, and the prophetic words of the Scriptures will be fulfilled.

Then Jesus said to them, “You foolish people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the Scriptures.

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

They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us as he talked with us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?”

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.