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Times When Jesus Authoritatively Quoted the Jewish Scriptures
By Saying “It is Written” (or Similar)


Matthew 4:7 Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”

Matthew 11:10 For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

Matthew 21:13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”

Matthew 26:24 The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

Matthew 26:31 Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Luke 4:4 Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ ”

Luke 4:8 Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

Luke 10:26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

Luke 18:31 He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

Luke 20:17 But he looked at them, and said, “Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?’

Luke 21:22 For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

Luke 22:37 For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’ For that which concerns me has an end.”

Luke 24:44 He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

Luke 24:46 He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day

John 6:45 It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’’ . . .

John 8:17 It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.

John 10:34 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

John 15:25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

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