Acts 26:23
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.””
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“that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“how that the Christ must suffer, and how that he first by the resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 26:23 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
- Psalms 16:8I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
- Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
- Isaiah 53:1Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
- Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- Zechariah 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
- Zechariah 13:7Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,against the man who is My Companion,declares the LORD of Hosts.Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered,and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
- Matthew 27:53After Jesus’ resurrection, when they had come out of the tombs, they entered the holy city and appeared to many people.
- Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”
- Luke 18:31Then Jesus took the Twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything the prophets have written about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.
- Luke 24:26Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
- Luke 24:46And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
- John 10:18No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”
- John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
- Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
- Acts 3:18But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.
- Acts 13:34In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’
- Acts 26:8Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?
- Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
- 1 Corinthians 15:3For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
- 1 Corinthians 15:20But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
- Colossians 1:18And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
- Hebrews 2:10In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.
- Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
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