Jesus *said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘A stone which the builders rejected, This has become the chief cornerstone; This came about from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes’?

But Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, since you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God.

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?”

But all this has taken place so that the Scriptures of the prophets will be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left Him and fled.

Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God?

Every day I was with you within the temple grounds teaching, and you did not arrest Me; but this has taken place so that the Scriptures will be fulfilled.”

Then beginning with Moses and with all the Prophets, He explained to them the things written about Himself in all the Scriptures.

They said to one another, “Were our hearts not burning within us when He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?”

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

Testimony of the Scripture

You examine the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is those very Scriptures that testify about Me;

They answered and said to him, “You are not from Galilee as well, are you? Examine the Scriptures, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.”

And according to Paul’s custom, he visited them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Now these people were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was proficient in the Scriptures.

for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures,

For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

but now has been disclosed, and through the Scriptures of the prophets, in accordance with the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith;

For I handed down to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

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

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.