But I will tell you what is noted in the Scripture of Truth. (No one upholds me against these, except Michael your prince.

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord’s doing, And it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?”

But all this was done that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.

Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.

Jesus answered and said to them, “Are you not therefore mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God?

I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled.”

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And He was numbered with the transgressors.”

And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”

The Scriptures Opened

Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.”

And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.

Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.

He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?”

If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

Jesus Identifies His Betrayer

“I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.’

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

They said therefore among themselves, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says: “They divided My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots.” Therefore the soldiers did these things.

It Is Finished

After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!”

For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, “Not one of His bones shall be broken.”

And again another Scripture says, “They shall look on Him whom they pierced.”

For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.

“Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus;

The place in the Scripture which he read was this: “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before its shearer is silent, So He opened not His mouth.

Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him.

Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.

Ministry of Apollos

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

for he vigorously refuted the Jews publicly, showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”

For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”

God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith—

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.”

But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.”

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well;

And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?

Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion A chief cornerstone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.”

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation,

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