John 7:15-16
The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?” So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me."
This is a subtle proof of Christ's divinity. How did He know the Bible so well? He never went to seminary and yet He knew the Bible like the back of His band. He likely didn't even own a Bible or have physical access to all of the books and scrolls that made up the Old Testament; and yet He knew it inside and out.
How could this be?
He knew the Bible because, well, He wrote it. He didn't need to gather the scrolls together to know what was in there. He was the essence behind the ink and the power behind the pen. He didn't need access to the scrolls in order to have access to God. He was the Word of God in flesh appearing. Jesus loved the Scriptures because He wrote them, but for the same reason, He didn't need to attend Sunday school in order to apprehend them. That said, He did not point this out in order to convince people to put down their Bibles, but all the more to pick them up. The fact that He didn't need a hard copy was not to imply that you don't either, but to enforce, all the more, your need for one in order to get it into your DNA like it was in the walking Word who lived, breathed, died and rose again among us.
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