Acts 26:23

God's Word

They said that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to come back to life and would spread light to Jewish and non-Jewish people.”

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman hostile toward each other. I will make your descendants and her descendant hostile toward each other. He will crush your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Isaiah 42:6

I, the Lord, have called you to do what is right. I will take hold of your hand. I will protect you. I will appoint you as my promise  to the people, as my light to the nations.

Isaiah 49:6

Now, the Lord says, “You are not just my servant who restores the tribes of Jacob and brings back those in Israel whom I have preserved. I have also made you a light for the nations so that you would save people all over the world.”

Zechariah 12:10

“I will pour out the Spirit of blessing and mercy on David’s family and on those who live in Jerusalem. They will look at me, whom they have stabbed. Then they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son, and they will cry bitterly for him as one cries for a firstborn son.

Zechariah 13:7

“Arise, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my friend,” declares the Lord of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered. Then I will turn my hand against the little ones.”

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man is going to die as the Scriptures say he will. But how horrible it will be for that person who betrays the Son of Man. It would have been better for that person if he had never been born.”

Matthew 27:53

They came out of the tombs after he had come back to life, and they went into the holy city where they appeared to many people.

Luke 2:32

He is a light that will reveal ⌞salvation⌟ to the nations and bring glory to your people Israel.”

Luke 24:26

Didn’t the Messiah have to suffer these things and enter into his glory?”

Luke 24:46

He said to them, “Scripture says that the Messiah would suffer and that he would come back to life on the third day.

John 10:18

No one takes my life from me. I give my life of my own free will. I have the authority to give my life, and I have the authority to take my life back again. This is what my Father ordered me to do.”

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the one who brings people back to life, and I am life itself. Those who believe in me will live even if they die.

Acts 13:34

“God stated that he brought Jesus back to life and that Jesus’ body never decayed. He said, ‘I will give you the enduring love promised to David.’

Acts 26:18

You will open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan’s control to God’s. Then they will receive forgiveness for their sins and a share among God’s people who are made holy by believing in me.’

Acts 26:8

Why do all of you refuse to believe that God can bring dead people back to life?

Acts 3:18

But in this way God made the sufferings of his Messiah come true. God had predicted these sufferings through all the prophets.

Acts 3:24

Samuel and all the prophets who followed him spoke about these days.

1 Corinthians 15:3

I passed on to you the most important points of doctrine that I had received: Christ died to take away our sins as the Scriptures predicted.

2 Corinthians 4:4

The god of this world has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. As a result, they don’t see the light of the Good News about Christ’s glory. It is Christ who is God’s image.

Colossians 1:18

He is also the head of the church, which is his body. He is the beginning, the first to come back to life so that he would have first place in everything.

Hebrews 2:10

God is the one for whom and through whom everything exists. Therefore, while God was bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was the right time to bring Jesus, the source of their salvation, to the end of his work through suffering.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the witness, the trustworthy one, the first to come back to life, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. Glory and power forever and ever  belong to the one who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood