'Scriptures' in the Bible

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

Jesus answered them, "You are deceived, because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God.

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

But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled.

Jesus said to them, "Aren't you deceived for this reason, because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God?

Day after day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me. But this has happened so that the scriptures would be fulfilled."

Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things written about himself in all the scriptures.

They said to each other, "Didn't our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?"

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

Don't the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

Paul went to the Jews in the synagogue, as he customarily did, and on three Sabbath days he addressed them from the scriptures,

These Jews were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they eagerly received the message, examining the scriptures carefully every day to see if these things were so.

Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, arrived in Ephesus. He was an eloquent speaker, well-versed in the scriptures.

for he refuted the Jews vigorously in public debate, demonstrating from the scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith --

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 on the third day according to the scriptures,

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.