15 Bible Verses about Christ And The Scriptures

You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages ??and they do testify to me ??40 but you refuse to come to me for life.

For if you believed Moses you would believe me, since it was of me that he wrote.

he met Nathanael and told him, "We have found him whom Moses wrote about in the Law, and also the prophets ??it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazaret."

Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

Then he began with Moses and all the prophets and interpreted to them the passages referring to himself throughout the scriptures.

So they fixed a day and came to him at his quarters in large numbers. From morning to evening he explained the Reign of God to them from personal testimony, and tried to convince them about Jesus from the law of Moses and the prophets.

First and foremost, I passed on to you what I had myself received, namely, that Christ died for our sins as the scriptures had said,

that he was buried, that he rose on the third day as the scriptures had said,

Do not imagine I have come to destroy the Law or the prophets; I have not come to destroy but to fulfil.

Well then, whatever you would like men to do to you, do just the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.

The whole Law and the prophets hang upon these two commands."

He replied, "Have you not read what David did when he and his men were hungry,

Have you not read in the Law that the priests in the temple are not guilty when they desecrate the sabbath?

Only, how could the scriptures be fulfilled then ??the scriptures that say this must be so?"

And they said to one another, "Did not our hearts glow within us when he was talking to us on the road, opening up the scriptures for us?"