Acts 17:31
because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness by a man he has appointed. He has provided assurance of this to everyone by raising this man from the dead.”
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Matthew 10:15Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
Luke 24:46and said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day,
Acts 2:23this man, who was delivered up by the deliberate plan and foreknowledge of God, you took and put to death, having him nailed to the cross by the hands of lawless men.
Acts 3:15You put to death the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.
Acts 5:30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you murdered by hanging him on a cross.
Matthew Henry on Acts 17:23-32
Paul at Athens. 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. 23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. 24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed… Read the whole commentary →