Then Jesus added: "Have you never read in the Scriptures?-- 'The very stone which the builders despised--Has now itself become the corner-stone; This corner-stone has come from the Lord, And is marvelous in our eyes.'

As to the resurrection of the dead, have you not read these words of God--

But in that case how would the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that this must be?"

"Is not the reason of your mistake," answered Jesus, "your ignorance of the Scriptures and of the power of God?

If those to whom God's word were addressed were said to be 'gods'--and Scripture cannot be set aside--

"Brothers," he said, "it was necessary that the prediction of Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit made by the lips of David about Judas, who acted as guide to the men that arrested Jesus,

So, as they disagreed among themselves, they began to disperse, Paul adding only--"True, indeed, was the declaration made by the Holy Spirit, through the Prophet Isaiah to your ancestors--

Great in every way. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God's utterances.

Whatever was written in the Scriptures in days gone by was written for our instruction, so that, through patient endurance, and through the encouragement drawn from the Scriptures, we might hold fast to our hope.

And Scripture, foreseeing that God would pronounce the Gentiles righteous as the result of faith, foretold the Good News to Abraham in the words--'Through thee all the Gentiles shall be blessed.'

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says-- 'If to-day you hear God's voice,

God's Message is a living and active power, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing its way till it penetrates soul and spirit--not the joints only but the very marrow--and detecting the inmost thoughts and purposes of the mind.

And still stronger is the assurance that we have in the teaching of the Prophets; to which you will do well to pay attention (as if it were a lamp shining in a gloomy place), until the Day dawns and the Morning Star rises in your hearts.

And is

I never shrank from telling you anything that could be helpful to you, or from teaching you both in public and in private.

To each man there is given spiritual illumination for the general good.

And he it is who gave to the Church Apostles, Prophets, Missionaries, Pastors, and Teachers,

For doctrine

But you, Timothy, were a close observer of my teaching, my conduct, my purposes, my faith, my forbearance, my love, and my patient endurance,

For instruction

He should instruct his opponents in a gentle spirit; for, possibly, God may give them a repentance that will lead to a fuller knowledge of Truth,

Then he added: "So every Teacher of the Law, who has received instruction about the Kingdom of Heaven, is like a householder who produces from his stores things both new and old."

He had been well-instructed in the Cause of the Lord, and with burning zeal he spoke of, and taught carefully, the facts about Jesus, though he knew of no baptism but John's.

And a teacher of the childish, because in the Law you possess the outline of all Knowledge and Truth.

General references

There were many other signs of his mission that Jesus gave in presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book;

Now these words-'it was regarded as righteousness'-were not written with reference to Abraham only;