Acts 26:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.

Christ

1 Corinthians 15:3

The first

And should

Acts 26:18

Luke 2:32

Bible References

Christ

And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;

He shall bruise you on the head,

And you shall bruise him on the heel.”

“Seventy

weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,
And against the man, My Associate,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.
“Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered;
And I will turn My hand against the little ones.

Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things which are written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished.

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?”

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

The first

Why is it considered incredible among you people if God does raise the dead?

this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.

As for the fact that He raised Him up from the dead, no longer to return to decay, He has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’

I have set the Lord continually before me;

Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

But the Lord was pleased
To crush Him,

putting Him to grief;

If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.

and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many.

No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.

He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood—

And should

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.’

A Light

of revelation to the Gentiles,

And the glory of Your people Israel.”