Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.
And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;
And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.