Since the beginning of time, God spoke to men with works and words, through the created realities, and through the men chosen to transmit what he wanted to say.

But above all God has revealed to us through his Only-Begotten Son, the Second Person of the Trinity.  Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, is the last and final Word of the Father, who has transmitted everything that God wanted to communicate to men so that we could have life in him.

The Bible contains and gives testimony to the Word of the living God who speaks to us in Christ.  Jesus Christ is the key to understanding the nature and the message of the Bible.  Therefore, the Christian will seek Christ in every page of the sacred books, and especially in the Gospels, which “have a special preeminence” ^{(DV 18)}.

It follows that each passage of the Bible should be read within the context of all the Scriptures with the realization that the Old Testament prepares the New and the New gives effect to the Old.