'Scriptures' in the Bible

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become {the cornerstone}. This came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

But Jesus answered [and] said to them, "You are mistaken, [because] you do not know the scriptures or the power of God!

How then would the scriptures be fulfilled that it must happen in this way?"

But all this has happened in order that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled." Then the disciples all abandoned him [and] fled.

Jesus said to them, "Are you not deceived because of this, [because you] do not know the scriptures or the power of God?

Every day I was with you in the temple [courts] teaching, and you did not arrest me! But [this has happened] in order that the scriptures would be fulfilled.

And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things concerning himself in all the scriptures.

And they said to one another, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?"

Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,

You search the scriptures because you think that you have eternal life in them, and it is these that testify about me.

{And as was his custom}, Paul went in to them and on three Sabbath [days] he discussed with them from the scriptures,

Now these were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica. {They} accepted the message with all eagerness, examining the scriptures every day [to see] if these [things] were so.

Now a certain Jew {named} Apollos, {a native} Alexandrian, arrived in Ephesus--an eloquent man who was well-versed in the scriptures.

For he was vigorously refuting the Jews in public, demonstrating through the scriptures [that] the Christ was Jesus.

which he promised previously through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

For whatever was written beforehand was written for our instruction, in order that through patient endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

For I passed on to you {as of first importance} what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

and that he was buried, and that he was raised up on the third day according to the scriptures,

as [he does] also in all his letters, speaking in them about these [things], in which there are some [things] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as [they] also [do] the rest of the scriptures.