Jesus saith to them, "Did ye never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made head of a corner; this was from the Lord, and it is marvellous in our eyes?'

"But concerning the resurrection of the dead, did ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

How, then, could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?"

Jesus said to them, "Is it not on this account that ye err, because ye know not 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),

"Brethren, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spake beforehand, through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who arrested Jesus;

And, disagreeing among themselves, they were departing, when Paul uttered one declaration, "Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah, the prophet, to your fathers,

Much every way: first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

For whatsoever things were written in former times were written for our instruction, that we through patience and through consolation of the Scriptures may have hope.

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the gentiles through faith, proclaimed beforehand the Gospel to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."

Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit saith, "To-day, if ye hear His voice,

For the word of God is living, and effectual, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to a dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

And we have the more sure prophetic word, to which ye do well to take heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the Morning Star arise in your hearts;

And is

how I shrank not from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and from teaching you publicly, and from house to house,

And to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for profiting.

And He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

For doctrine

But you did closely follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience,

For instruction

in meekness correcting those opposing themselves, if peradventure God should give them repentance to a full knowledge of the truth,

and He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe, having been made a disciple to the Kingdom of heaven, is like a householder, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old."

The same had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and, being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, knowing only the immersion of John.

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

General references

Many other signs, therefore, did Jesus in the presence of the disciples, which have not been written in this book;

Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned to him;