For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: "Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth.

Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus.

And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures.

But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.

Jesus said to them, "Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?

For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues."

After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of encouragement for the people, say it."

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.