Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus.
And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in greater numbers. From morning till evening he expounded to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.
And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.
inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide open.
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass: that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”
Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.”
And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists also, preaching the Lord Jesus.
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,
And immediately he proclaimed Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.”
that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, “What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
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