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

and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,

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

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

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?”

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

For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received – that Christ died for our sins according to 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.

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.