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Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'A STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE; THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES'?

But Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, since you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God.

"How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?"

"But all this has taken place so that the Scriptures of the prophets will be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left Him and fled.

"Have you not even read this Scripture: 'A STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE;

Jesus said to them, "Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God?

"Every day I was with you within the temple grounds teaching, and you did not arrest Me; but this has taken place so that the Scriptures will be fulfilled."

Now He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

Then beginning with Moses and with all the Prophets, He explained to them the things written about Himself in all the Scriptures.

They said to one another, "Were our hearts not burning within us when He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?"

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

"You examine the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is those very Scriptures that testify about Me;

"The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'"

"Has the Scripture not said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

They answered and said to him, "You are not from Galilee as well, are you? Examine the Scriptures, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee."

"If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be nullified),

"I am not speaking about all of you. I know the ones whom I have chosen; but this is happening so that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'HE WHO EATS MY BREAD HAS LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME.'

"While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name, which You have given Me; and I guarded them, and not one of them perished except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

So they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be." This happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: "THEY DIVIDED MY GARMENTS AMONG THEMSELVES, AND THEY CAST LOTS FOR MY CLOTHING." Therefore the soldiers did these things.