Written (Substance)

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, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.

Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?

Every day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me. But this has happened that the Scriptures would be fulfilled.”

and He began by saying, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For what is written about Me is reaching its fulfillment.”

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.

They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,

Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’

While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it. Instead, let us cast lots to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My garments among them, and cast lots for My clothing.” So that is what the soldiers did.

After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”

And, as another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they have pierced.”

For they still did not understand from the Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.

“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.

The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

Then Philip began with this very Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the Scriptures.

For he powerfully refuted the Jews in public debate, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,

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

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:

For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

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

The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

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

But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker is worthy of his wages.”

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.

Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?

For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation.

He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.