21 Bible Verses about Reading The Scriptures

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And was now on his way home, sitting in his carriage and reading the Prophet Isaiah.

So Philip ran up, and he heard the Abyssinian reading the Prophet Isaiah. "Do you understand what you are reading?" he asked.

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the President of the Synagogue sent them this message--"Brothers, if you have any helpful words to address to the people, now is the time to speak."

For in every town, for generations past, there have been those who preach Moses, read as he is in the Synagogues every Sabbath."

The people of Jerusalem and their leading men, failing to recognize Jesus, and not understanding the utterances of the Prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

Coming to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, Jesus, as was his custom, went on the Sabbath into the Synagogue, and stood up to read the Scriptures.

"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?

Then Jesus added: "Have you never read in the Scriptures?-- 'The very stone which the builders despised--Has now itself become the corner-stone; This corner-stone has come from the Lord, And is marvelous in our eyes.'

As to the resurrection of the dead, have you not read these words of God--

"Have you never read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was in want and hungry, he and his companions--

Have you never read this passage of Scripture?--'The very stone which the builders despised has now itself become the corner- stone;

Jesus' answer was: "Have not you read even of what David did, when he was hungry, he and his companions--

And said to him: "Do you hear what these boys are saying?" "Yes," answered Jesus; "but did you never read the words--'Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast called forth perfect praise'?"

As to the dead, and the fact that they rise, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him thus--'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

"What is said in the Law?" answered Jesus. "What do you read there?"

But their minds were slow to learn. Indeed, to this very day, at the public reading of the Old Covenant, the same veil remains unlifted; only for those who are in union with Christ does it pass away.

But, even to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts.

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