Then Jesus said to the apostles, “These are the words that I told you while I was still with you, [when I said] that everything written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms about me needed to be fulfilled.”
Acts 3:18 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) But this is the way God fulfilled the things which He had predicted through the prophets about the suffering of Christ. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Thus has God fulfilled what He foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ (the Messiah) should undergo ill treatment and be afflicted and suffer. American Standard Version (1901) But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled. Common English Bible But this is how God fulfilled what he foretold through all the prophets: that his Christ would suffer. Catholic Public Domain Version But in this way God has fulfilled the things that he announced beforehand through the mouth of all the Prophets: that his Christ would suffer. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. |
Then Jesus said to the apostles, “These are the words that I told you while I was still with you, [when I said] that everything written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms about me needed to be fulfilled.”
All the prophets have testified [in their writings], that it is through the name of Jesus that every person who believes in Him will receive the forgiveness of sins.”
Yet, He was handed over to you so that, by lawless men [i.e., the Romans], He was put to death by crucifixion. Now this was all done in harmony with God's full pre-knowledge and [divine] purpose.
And when they had arranged a day, large numbers of people came to Paul's house. He explained [everything to them], testifying from morning until evening concerning the kingdom of God and concerning [the Messiahship of] Jesus, both from the Law of Moses and from [the writings of] the prophets.
For prophecy was never produced by the will of man, but people spoke from God, as they were carried along [i.e., inspired] by the Holy Spirit.
Then I fell down in front of him to worship him. But he said to me, “Do not do that; I am [only] a fellow-servant with you and with your brothers who hold onto the testimony about Jesus. You should worship God. For the testimony about Jesus is the spirit [i.e., the purpose, or source] of prophecy.”