Jesus said to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of a corner? this is from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes?

But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,

How then would the Scriptures be accomplished, that it must be so?

Jesus said to them, Do you not err on this account, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

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

and disagreeing among themselves they were dismissed by Paul, saying one word; Well did the Holy Spirit speak by Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,

Much in every way. For first, indeed, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

For those things which were written before were written for our instruction, that through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we may have hope.

And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the nations by faith, promised before to Abraham, In you shall all the nations be blessed.

Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit says, To-day if you will hear his voice,

For the word of God is living, and effective, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and reaching even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrows, and distinguishes thoughts and intentions of mind;

And we have the more sure prophetic word, to which you will do well to attend, as to a light shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the day-star arises in your hearts,

And is

how I kept not back from declaring to you and teaching you publicly and from house to house any thing that was profitable,

But a manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for a useful purpose.

And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

For doctrine

But you have followed my instruction,??ode of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience,

For instruction

in meekness correcting the adversaries, that God may give them a change of mind to a knowledge of the truth,

And he said to them, Every scribe therefore that is instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like a householder who casts out of his treasury things new and old.

This man was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in spirit spoke and taught correctly the doctrines concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John;

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law;

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Jesus performed also many other miracles in the presence of his disciples which are not recorded in this book;

But it was not written for his sake alone, that it was accounted to him,