Acts 17:3
opening and alleging that it behooved the Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom, said he, I proclaim unto you, is the Christ.
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Luke 24:32And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Luke 24:46and he said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved the Christ to suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day;
Acts 1:4and, being assembled together with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, said he, ye heard from me:
Acts 3:18But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all his prophets, that the Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
Acts 9:22But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews that dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
Acts 18:28for he powerfully confuted the Jews, and that publicly, showing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
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 →