Acts 17:3

opening and alleging, 'That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ — Jesus whom I proclaim to you.'

Young's Literal Translation

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 according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

4And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few.

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Cross References

Luke 24:32And they said one to another, 'Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?'

Luke 24:46and he said to them — 'Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day,

Acts 1:4And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, [saith he,] 'Ye did hear of me;

Acts 3:18and God, what things before He had declared through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He did thus fulfil;

Acts 9:22And Saul was still more strengthened, and he was confounding the Jews dwelling in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

Acts 18:28for powerfully the Jews he was refuting publicly, shewing through the Writings Jesus to be 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 →

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