'Scriptures' in the Bible

"Have you never read in the Scriptures," said Jesus, "'The Stone which the builders rejected has been made the Cornerstone: this Cornerstone came from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes'?

The reply of Jesus was, "You are in error, through ignorance of the Scriptures and of the power of God.

In that case how are the Scriptures to be fulfilled which declare that thus it must be?"

Yet I tell you that not only has Elijah come, but they have also done to him whatever they chose, as the Scriptures say about him."

"Is not this the cause of your error," replied Jesus--"your ignorance alike of the Scriptures and of the power of God?

Day after day I used to be among you in the Temple teaching, and you never seized me. But this is happening in order that the Scriptures may be fulfilled.'

"Were not our hearts," they said to one another, "burning within us while He talked to us on the way and explained the Scriptures to us?"

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

"You search the Scriptures, because you suppose that in them you will find the Life of the Ages; and it is those Scriptures that yield testimony concerning me;

Paul--following his usual custom--betook himself to it, and for three successive Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

The Jews at Beroea were of a nobler disposition than those in Thessalonica, for they very readily received the Message, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether it was as Paul stated.

Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos came to Ephesus. He was a native of Alexandria, a man of great learning and well versed in the Scriptures.

for he powerfully and in public overcame the Jews in argument, proving to them from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

For all that was written of old has been written for our instruction, so that we may always have hope through the power of endurance and the encouragement which the Scriptures afford.

For I repeated to you the all-important fact which also I had been taught, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures;

that He was buried; that He rose to life again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

That is what he says in all his letters, when speaking in them of these things. In those letters there are some statements hard to understand, which ill-taught and unprincipled people pervert, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own ruin.