When did Jesus ever point to actual written Scripture?
Jesus did not carry Scripture with him since such things were expensive and rare and not easy to reproduce.
When you go to large group meetings do they not usually have hand outs of some type? Why is there no recorded event where Jesus or the Apostles had hand outs for the crowd?
Why did they never actually refer to Scripture that they held in their own hands or pointed to our handed out?
BECAUSE THERE WAS NO BIBLE in the Early Church and because it was VERY rare for all current known works of Scripture to be in ONE PLACE in the Early Church.
Psst,...He IS the Word.