15 Bible Verses about Christ And The Scriptures

"You search the Scriptures, because you suppose that in them you will find the Life of the Ages; and it is those Scriptures that yield testimony concerning me;

For if you believe Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

Then Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the Law wrote, as well as the Prophets--Jesus, the son of Joseph, a man of Nazareth."

And He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you--that everything must be fulfilled that is written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and the Psalms concerning me."

And, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them the passages in Scripture which refer to Himself.

So they arranged a day with him and came to him in considerable numbers at the house of the friends who were entertaining him. And then, with solemn earnestness, he explained to them the subject of the Kingdom of God, endeavouring from morning till evening to convince them about Jesus, both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.

For I repeated to you the all-important fact which also I had been taught, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures;

that He was buried; that He rose to life again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

"Do not for a moment suppose that I have come to abrogate the Law or the Prophets: I have not come to abrogate them but to give them their completion.

Everything, therefore, be it what it may, that you would have men do to you, do you also the same to them; for in this the Law and the Prophets are summed up.

The whole of the Law and the Prophets is summed up in these two Commandments."

"Have you never read," He replied, "what David did when he and his men were hungry?

And have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath without incurring guilt?

In that case how are the Scriptures to be fulfilled which declare that thus it must be?"

"Were not our hearts," they said to one another, "burning within us while He talked to us on the way and explained the Scriptures to us?"