15 Bible Verses about Christ And The Scriptures

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

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

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in greater numbers. From morning till evening he expounded to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,

that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

"So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."

He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:

Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?

But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?"

They said to each other, "Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?"