How Jesus related to ‘the scriptures’
(also referred to as the ‘the Law’ or ‘the prophets’ or ‘it is written’)
References:
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them.
Matthew 5:17 ESV
But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God”.
Matthew 22:29 ESV
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; [but] it is they that bear witness about me.
John 5:39 ESV (emphasis added)
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken — . . . John 10:35 ESV
But [Jesus] answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God’.” Matthew 4:4 ESV
And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour” . . . Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. [Emphasis added.] Luke 4: 17‑19, 21 ESV
He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.” Matthew 21:13 ESV
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes’?” Matthew 21:42 ESV
Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things which are written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished. "For He will be handed over to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and mistreated and spit upon.” Luke 18: 31‑32 NASB
“For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in me: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors.’ For what is written about me has its fulfilment.” Luke 22:37 ESV
And He said to them, "O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory ?" Luke 24:25‑26 NASB
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