15 Bible Verses about Christ And The Scriptures
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You search the Scriptures, because you think that you find in them Immortal Life;
For, had you believed Moses, you would have believed me, for it was of me that Moses wrote;
He found Nathanael and said to him: "We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and of whom the Prophets also wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph's son!"
"This is what I told you," he said, "when I was still with you--that everything that had been written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms, must be fulfilled."
Then, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them all through the Scriptures the passages that referred to himself.
They then fixed a day with him, and came to the place where he was staying, in even larger numbers, when Paul proceeded to lay the subject before them. He bore his testimony to the Kingdom of God, and tried to convince them about Jesus, by arguments drawn from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets--speaking from morning till evening.
For at the very beginning of my teaching I gave you the account which I had myself received-that Christ died for our sins (as the Scriptures had foretold),
That he was buried, that on the third day he was raised (as the Scriptures had foretold),
Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to do away with them, but to complete them.
Do to others whatever you would wish them to do to you; for that is the teaching of both the Law and the Prophets.
"Have not you read," replied Jesus, "what David did, when he and his companions were hungry--
And have not you read in the law that, on the Sabbath, the priest in the Temple break the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?
But in that case how would the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that this must be?"
"How our hearts glowed," the disciples said to each other, "while he was talking to us on the road, and when he explained the Scriptures to us!"
