John was written under VERY DIRECT inspiration of the Holy Spirit something not found in the OT. The OT is open to interpretation by the HS and can't be understood without the HS but the NT isn't even in the same ball park. The words used in writing the NT is a very important key to it's understanding. Since the 2nd to the 4th century people are trying to copy with a Fake spirit what Jesus and the Apostles wrote with the REAL SPIRIT and re-interpret the NT with their own human spirit into something they want the NT to say. There are numerous cults that copy this scriptural personal interpretation!
2 Peter 3 very directly explains the problem people has with understanding Paul's letters. They twist Pauls's letters the same way as they twist the OT around incorrectly. Peter quotes Paul who calls them ignorant and unsettled!
Every place in the NT where the word scripture is used refers to the OT.
Matthew 21
42 Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'
Matthew 22
29 But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
Matthew 26
54 How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"
56 But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
Mark 12
10 Haven't you even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner.
24 Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?
Mark 14
49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled."
Mark 15
28 The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, "He was numbered with transgressors."
Luke 4
21 He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
Luke 24
27 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
32 They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"
45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
John 2
22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
John 5
39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
John 7
38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
42 Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
John 10
35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken),
John 13
18 I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.'
John 17
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
John 19
24 Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did these things.
28 After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty."
36 For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."
37 Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."
John 20
9 For as yet they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
Acts 1
16 "Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.
Acts 8
32 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, So he doesn't open his mouth.
35 Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.
Acts 17
2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Acts 18
24 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.
28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
Romans 1
2 which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
Romans 4
3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
Romans 9
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth."
Romans 10
11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."
Romans 11
2 God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
Romans 14
23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. [ (Romans 14:24) Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, ] [ (Romans 14:25) but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; ] [ (Romans 14:26) to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen. ]
Romans 15
4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
1 Corinthians 15
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
Galatians 3
8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."
22 But the Scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Galatians 4
30 However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."
1 Timothy 5
18 For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The laborer is worthy of his wages."
James 2
8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.
James 4
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
1 Peter 2
6 Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed."
2 Peter 1
20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.
2 Peter 3
16 as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
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