The Scriptures

New Testament References:

• Matthew 21:42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
• Matthew 22:29Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
• Matthew 26:54But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?”
• Mark 12:10Haven’t you read this passage of Scripture: “‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;
• Mark 12:24Jesus replied, “Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?
• Mark 14:49Every day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled.”
• Luke 4:21He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
• Luke 24:27And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
• Luke 24:32They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
• Luke 24:45Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.
• John 2:22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
• John 5:39You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,
• John 7:38Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
• John 7:42Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David’s descendants and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?”
• John 10:35If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside—
• John 13:18Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

“I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned against me.’

• John 17:12While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
• John 19:24“Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.” This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said, “They divided my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.” So this is what the soldiers did.
• John 19:28The Death of Jesus

Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

• John 19:36These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,”
• John 19:37and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”
• John 20:9(They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
• Acts 1:16and said, “Brothers and sisters, the Scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas, who served as guide for those who arrested Jesus.
• Acts 8:32This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
• Acts 8:35Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

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