¹³ for all the prophets and the law till John did prophesy,

⁶ And he hath turned back the heart of fathers to sons, And the heart of sons to their fathers, Before I come and have utterly smitten the land!

¹⁷ `Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets -- I did not come to throw down, but to fulfill;

¹⁸ for, verily I say to you, till that the heaven and the earth may pass away, one iota or one tittle may not pass away from the law, till that all may come to pass.

²⁷ and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.

⁴⁴ and he said to them, `These `are' the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

⁴⁶ for if ye were believing Moses, ye would have been believing me, for he wrote concerning me;

⁴⁷ but if his writings ye believe not, how shall ye believe my sayings?'

²² `For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said -- A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you;

²³ and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;

²⁴ and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days.

²⁷ for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read -- having judged `him' -- did fulfill,

²¹ And now apart from law hath the righteousness of God been manifested, testified to by the law and the prophets,