Whatever was written in the Scriptures in days gone by was written for our instruction, so that, through patient endurance, and through the encouragement drawn from the Scriptures, we might hold fast to our hope.

Then he enabled them to understand the meaning of the Scriptures, saying to them:

You search the Scriptures, because you think that you find in them Immortal Life;

For they did not then understand the passage of Scripture which says that Jesus must rise again from the dead.

The passage of Scripture which he was reading was this--'Like a sheep, he was led away to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in the hands of its shearer, so he refrains from opening his lips.

Then Philip began, and, taking this passage as his text, told him the Good News about Jesus.

And, following his usual custom, Paul joined them, and for three Sabbaths addressed them, drawing his arguments from the Scriptures.

But the words of Scripture represent the whole world as being in bondage to sin, so that the promised blessing, dependent, as it is, upon faith in Jesus Christ, may be given to those who have faith in him.

Yet, if you keep the royal law which runs--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself,' you are doing right;

It is the same in all his letters, when he speaks in them about these subjects. There are some things in them difficult to understand, which untaught and weak people distort, just as they do all other writings, to their own Ruin.

Great in every way. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God's utterances.

and that, from your childhood, you have known the Sacred Writings, which can give you the wisdom that, through belief in Christ Jesus, leads to Salvation.

Meanwhile there had come to Ephesus an Alexandrian Jew, named Apollos, an eloquent man, who was well-versed in the Scriptures.

"Your mistake," replied Jesus, "is due to your ignorance of the Scriptures, and of the power of God.

"Is not the reason of your mistake," answered Jesus, "your ignorance of the Scriptures and of the power of God?

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

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."

These Jews of Beroea were better disposed than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the Message with great readiness, and daily examined the Scriptures to see if what was said was true.