15 Bible Verses about Christ And The Scriptures

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also wrote about -- 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."

Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things written about himself in all the scriptures.

They set a day to meet with him, and they came to him where he was staying in even greater numbers. From morning until evening he explained things to them, testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets.

For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received -- that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them.

In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.

All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

He said to them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry --

Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

How then would the scriptures that say it must happen this way be fulfilled?"

They said to each other, "Didn't our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?"