Acts 17:3

explaining and affirming that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead; and that this Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.

In Context

2And Paul, according to his custom, went in to them, and, for three sabbath-days, he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

4And some of them believed, and associated themselves with Paul and Silas; of the devout Greeks, a great multitude, and of the chief women, not a few.

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Cross References

Luke 24:32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

Luke 24:46and he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus was it necessary that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day,

Acts 1:4And calling them together, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of my Father, which, said he, you have heard from me;

Acts 3:18But the things which God foretold by the mouth of all his prophets, that the Christ should suffer, he has thus fulfilled.

Acts 9:22But Saul increased the more in strength, and confuted the Jews that dwelt in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

Acts 18:28For, with great strength, he utterly confounded the Jews publicly, showing, by the Scriptures, that the Christ was Jesus.

Matthew Henry on Acts 17:2-10

Paul and Silas at Thessalonica. 1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: 2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, 3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ. 4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great… Read the whole commentary →

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