John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

 Throughout the four Gospels we have a remarkable record of Jesus quoting Scriptures and referring to Scriptures. Jesus Himself endorsed the story of Jonah as true, in Matthew 12:40, "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." - John R. Rice [A Coffer of Jewels About the Bible, pg. 28]

Jesus quoted continually from the Old Testament. And it is a remarkable fact that in divine inspiration Jesus took particular pains to verify and authenticate the Old Testament. - John R. Rice [A Coffer of Jewels About the Bible, pg. 28]

Jesus verified the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, just as if He knew that modernists and higher critics would try to deny the Mosaic authorship of the five books in the Bible ascribed to Moses. See what Jesus said of Moses, referring to him as the author of the Pentateuch, in various parts and all of the Pentateuch. - John R. Rice [A Coffer of Jewels About the Bible, pg. 28-29]

Jesus ascribed to the Prophet Isaiah various parts of the book of Isaiah, including quotations from chapters 6, 29, 42, and 53. These quotations are found in Matthew 13:14, Matthew 15:7-9, Matthew 8:17, and Matthew 12:18-21. It is is if the Lord Jesus Christ, knowing ahead of time the foolish critics and infidels who would deny the unity of the book of Isaiah (as He did know, of course), answered by verifying authorship of Isaiah for the entire book. Critics say that some one else wrote chapters 40 to 66 centuries later. Jesus says Isaiah wrote both parts. - John R. Rice [A Coffer of Jewels About the Bible, pg. 29]

Jesus Christ Himself stands or falls with the Bible. If the Bible is not true but Jesus thought it was, then Jesus is less than the perfect Son of God, Immanuel, God with us, God in the flesh, which He claimed to be and which the Bible clearly declares that He is. If Moses did not write the Pentateuch, and if Isaiah did not write the book of Isaiah, if Daniel did not write the book of Daniel, as Jesus said they did, then Jesus was either ignorant or deceitful, and in neither case could He be what He claims to be, the perfect, sinless Son of God, God incarnate. - John R. Rice [A Coffer of Jewels About the Bible, pg. 29-30]

If the story of Jonah being swallowed by a great fish or sea monster and after three days being delivered is not true, then Jesus Christ Himself stands indicted, for Jesus verified the story of the whale.

Jesus also verified the divine inspiration of the Genesis account of creation, quoting as authoritative Genesis 2:24, 25. ...

Jesus said that the story of the flood and of Noah was true, in Matthew 24:37-39...

He verified the miraculous destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by fire and brimstone from Heaven, in Luke 17:28, 29 ...

An honest and believing heart is compelled to see that Jesus Christ Himself has verified the Bible. If Jesus is what He claims to be, then the Bible is what Jesus claims it to be, the perfect Word of God. - John R. Rice [A Coffer of Jewels About the Bible, pg. 30-31]

Thank God, "the scripture cannot be broken." We agree with the Son of God in this statement. Jesus and the Bible stand or fall together, for Jesus verified and authenticated the perfection and infallibility of the Word of God. - John R. Rice [A Coffer of Jewels About the Bible, pg. 31]