Did you never read this passage of Scripture: " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone;

But as to the dead being raised, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

And he began by saying to them, "This passage of Scripture has been fulfilled here in your hearing today!"

But that the dead are raised to life, even Moses indicated in the passage about the bush, when he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

And he began with Moses and all the prophets and explained to them the passages all through the Scriptures that referred to himself.

So afterward when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the passage of Scripture and what Jesus had said.

This was the passage of Scripture that he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered, And just as a lamb is dumb before its shearer, He does not open his mouth.

Then Philip began, and starting from this passage, he told him the good news about Jesus.

For he says in another passage, "You are a priest forever of the priesthood of Melchizedek."