Acts 26:23

Tree of Life Version

that the Messiah was to suffer and that, being first to rise from the dead, He would proclaim light both to our people and to the nations.”

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will put animosity between you and the woman— between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will crush his heel.

Isaiah 42:6

“I, Adonai, called You in righteousness, I will take hold of Your hand, I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations,

Isaiah 49:6

So He says, “It is too trifling a thing that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the preserved ones of Israel. So I will give You as a light for the nations, that You should be My salvation to the end of the earth.”

Zechariah 12:10

“Then I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, when they will look toward Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son and grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for a firstborn.

Zechariah 13:7

Awake, O sword, against My shepherd, against the man who is My companion! It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered! I will turn My hand against the little ones.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man indeed goes, just as it is written about Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born!”

Matthew 27:53

And coming forth out of the tombs after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

Luke 2:32

‘A light for revelation to the nations’ and the glory of Your people Israel.”

Luke 24:26

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

Luke 24:46

and He said to them, “So it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day,

John 10:18

No one takes it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it up again. This command I received from My Father.”

John 11:25

Yeshua said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life! Whoever believes in Me, even if he dies, shall live.

Acts 13:34

“But since He raised Him up from the dead, never to return to decay, He has spoken in this way, ‘I will give you the holy and sure mercies of David.’

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes—so they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God, that they may receive release from sins as well as a place among those who are made holy through trusting in Me.’

Acts 26:8

Why is it judged incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?

Acts 3:18

But what God foretold through the mouth of all His prophets—that His Messiah was to suffer—so He has fulfilled.

Acts 3:24

Indeed, all the prophets who have spoken from Samuel on have announced these days.

1 Corinthians 15:3

For I also passed on to you first of all what I also received— that Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so they might not see the light of the Good News of the glory of Messiah, who is the image of God.

Colossians 1:18

He is the head of the body, His community. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead— so that He might come to have first place in all things.

Hebrews 2:10

For it was fitting for God—for whom and through whom all things exist—in leading many sons to glory, to perfect through sufferings the initiator of their salvation.

Revelation 1:5

and from Messiah Yeshua, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood