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

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

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

But all this has taken place to fulfill the Scriptures of the prophets.” 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 or the power of God?

Every day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me; but this has taken place to fulfill the Scriptures.”

Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.

They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while 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,

Witness of the Scripture

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;

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

Now these 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 mighty 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 is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith;

For I delivered 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 are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.