He said to them, “These are my words that I told y’all while I was still with y’all, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”
Now the Jews there were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with great eagerness and examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were true.
Y’all are to seek and read from the scroll of YHWH: Not one of these will be missing. None will lack its mate. For my mouth has commanded, and ʜɪꜱ Spirit has gathered them.
For the residents of Jerusalem and their rulers didn’t know him, and by condemning him they fulfilled the sayings of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.
I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do this! I am a fellow slave with you and with your siblings who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, because the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”
I will raise them up a prophet from among their people, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them everything that I command him.
But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John. For the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
This book of the law must not depart from your mouth, but you are to meditate on it day and night, so that you may observe to do all that is written in it; for then you are to make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
For these are not idle words for y’all—it is y’all’s life. By this y’all will prolong y’all’s days in the land whne y’all cross over the Jordan to possess it.”
Instead, they aspire toward a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for ʜᴇ has prepared a city for them.
Let the word of Christ dwell in y’all richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in y’all’s heart to God.
Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law and the prophets also wrote about—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
The secret things belong to YHWH our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.