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 them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God.

How then would the scriptures that say it must happen this way be fulfilled?”

But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

Have you not read this scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you deceived for this reason, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God?

Day after day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me. But this has happened so that the scriptures would be fulfilled.”

Then he began to tell them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.”

For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me, ‘And he was counted with the transgressors.’ For what is written about me is being fulfilled.”

Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things written about himself in all the scriptures.

They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?”

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,

So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”

Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken),

The Announcement of Jesus’ Betrayal

“What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, ‘The one who eats my bread has turned against me.’

When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.

So the soldiers said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but throw dice to see who will get it.” This took place to fulfill the scripture that says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they threw dice.” So the soldiers did these things.

Jesus’ Death

After this Jesus, realizing that by this time everything was completed, said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty!”

For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.”

And again another scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”

(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

“Brothers, the scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through David concerning Judas—who became the guide for those who arrested Jesus—