Let me be very clear. You can know the Bible, but if you don’t know Jesus, you don’t know the Bible. Jesus himself said that he came to fulfill all Scripture. He said that the Scripture was about him in John 5:39. “You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!” Jesus himself taught a Bible study after he rose from death—two, in fact—at the end of the Gospel of Luke, showing how the whole Old Testament was about him.

The whole Bible is about Jesus. It’s all about Jesus. And they knew the text of the Bible, but they didn’t know the Bible because they didn’t know Jesus, and the whole Bible is about Jesus. And so what Stephen is doing is taking the Bible that they know and leading them to the Jesus that they do not know.