21 Bible Verses about Reading The Scriptures

Was now on his way home, and was reading the Prophet Isaiah as he sat in his chariot.

So Philip ran up, and heard him reading Isaiah the Prophet, and said to him. "Do you understand what you are reading?"

And, after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the wardens of the synagogue sent word to them. "Brothers," they said, "if you have any word of encouragement to the people, say it."

"For Moses from the earliest times has had his preachers in every town where he is read aloud, Sabbath after Sabbath, in the synagogues."

"For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

Blessed is he who reads, and they who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep what is written in it. For the crisis is at hand.

Be applying yourself until I come to public reading, preaching, and teaching.

Then he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. and, as was his custom, he entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day, and stood up to read.

"Have you not read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was hungry, and his men, too?

"Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless?

"Have you not read." he answered, "that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said,

"Have you never read in the Scriptures," Jesus answered, "how The stone that the builders rejected Has been made the corner-stone; This is the Lord's doing, It is wonderful in our eyes?

"But concerning the resurrection of the dead, did you never read what was spoken to you by God,

He answered them. "Have you never read what David did when he was needy and hungry, he and his men?

"Have you not read this Scripture?" (he continued) "The very stone which the builders rejected Has now become the corner-stone;

"Have you never read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he and his followers were hungry?

they asked him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Surely," said Jesus, "and have you never read, Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"

But in regard to the rising again of the dead, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

And he said to him. "What is written in the Law? What do you read there?"

Nay, their minds were made dull; for to this very day, at the public reading of the Old Testament, the same veil rests thereon, because it is not revealed to them that in Christ the veil is taken away.

Yes, to this very day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts;