15 Bible Verses about Christ And The Scriptures
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You search the scriptures because you think that you have eternal life in them, and it is these that testify about me.
Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found [the one] whom Moses wrote [about] in the law, and the prophets wrote [about]--Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth!"
And he said to them, "These [are] my words that I spoke to you [while I] was still with you, that everything that is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled."
And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things concerning himself in all the scriptures.
And [when they] had set a day with him, many more came to him at his lodging place, to whom he was explaining from early in the morning until evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and attempting to convince them about Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets.
For I passed on 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 up on the third day according to the scriptures,
"Do not think that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets. I have not come to destroy [them] but to fulfill [them].
Therefore [in] all [things], whatever you want that people should do to you, thus also you do to them. For this is the law and the prophets.
So he said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those with him,
Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the sanctity of the Sabbath and are guiltless?
How then would the scriptures be fulfilled that it must happen in this way?"
And they said to one another, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?"
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