To the Law and to the Testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them.

Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgment of Jehovah.

The wise are ashamed, they are dismayed, and are captured. Lo, they have rejected the Word of Jehovah; so what wisdom is in them?

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

I have written the great things of My Law for him, but they were counted as a strange thing.

Jesus answered and said to them, You are in error, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of Me.

For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that it was necessary for Him to rise again from the dead.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily, to see whether these things are so.

For whatever things were written before were written for our instruction, that we through the patience and encouragement of the Scriptures might have hope.

and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

For I know that my Redeemer is alive, and He shall stand at the latter time upon the earth;

Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not a stranger. O how my reins have been exhausted within me!

He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from all faces. And He will take away from all the earth the rebuke of His people. For Jehovah has spoken.

Your dead ones shall live, together with My dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is as the dew of the light, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

The hand of Jehovah was upon me and brought me out by the Spirit of Jehovah, and made me rest in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.

And He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? So I answered, O Lord Jehovah, You know.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.

So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a shaking; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

Then He said to me, Prophesy to the spirit; prophesy, son of man, and say to the spirit, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Come from the four winds, O spirit, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.

Then He said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!

And you shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up out of your graves.

And many of those sleeping in the earth's dust shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting abhorrence.

After two days He will restore us to life. In the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His presence.

I will ransom them from the hand of Sheol; I will redeem them from death. O death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction? Sorrow is hidden from My eyes.

But Jesus looked at them and said, With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.

Is anything beyond the power of Jehovah? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

Ah, Lord Jehovah! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You.

For not one declaration of God will be impossible.

and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us, who believe according to the working of His mighty power

who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subject all things to Himself.