Acts 26:23

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Acts 26:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible

21 For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

22 But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:

23 that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

24 At this stage of Paul’s defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You are insane, Paul! Your great learning is driving you to madness!”

25 But Paul answered, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.

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Genesis 3:15

And 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 22:1

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

Psalms 22:2

I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.

Psalms 22:3

Yet You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

Psalms 22:4

In You our fathers trusted; they trusted and You delivered them.

Psalms 22:5

They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.

Psalms 22:6

But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

Psalms 22:7

All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

Psalms 22:8

“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”

Psalms 22:9

Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.

Psalms 22:10

From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.

Psalms 22:11

Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

Psalms 22:12

Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

Psalms 22:13

They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

Psalms 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

Psalms 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.

Psalms 22:16

For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.

Psalms 22:17

I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.

Psalms 22:18

They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

Psalms 22:19

But You, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.

Psalms 22:20

Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of wild dogs.

Psalms 22:21

Save me from the mouth of the lion; at the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me!

Psalms 22:22

I will proclaim Your name to my brothers; I will praise You in the assembly.

Psalms 22:23

You who fear the LORD, praise Him! All descendants of Jacob, honor Him! All offspring of Israel, revere Him!

Psalms 22:24

For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.

Psalms 22:25

My praise for You resounds in the great assembly; I will fulfill my vows before those who fear You.

Psalms 22:26

The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!

Psalms 22:27

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.

Psalms 22:28

For dominion belongs to the LORD and He rules over the nations.

Psalms 22:29

All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him— even those unable to preserve their lives.

Psalms 22:30

Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.

Psalms 22:31

They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn— all that He has done.

Isaiah 53:1

Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

Isaiah 53:2

He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

Isaiah 53:4

Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:5

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:6

We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

Isaiah 53:8

By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.

Isaiah 53:9

He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Isaiah 53:10

Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

Isaiah 53:11

After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.

Isaiah 53:12

Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Daniel 9:24

Seventy 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.

Daniel 9:25

Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.

Daniel 9:26

Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.

Zechariah 12:10

Then 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 13:7

Awake, 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.

Luke 18:31

Then 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 18:32

He will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.

Luke 18:33

They will flog Him and kill Him, and on the third day He will rise again.”

Luke 24:26

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”

Luke 24:46

And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

1 Corinthians 15:3

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

Acts 26:8

Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

Acts 2:23

He 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 2:24

But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.

Acts 2:25

David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Acts 2:26

Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell in hope,

Acts 2:27

because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

Acts 2:28

You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’

Acts 2:29

Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Acts 2:30

But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

Acts 2:31

Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.

Acts 2:32

God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

Acts 13:34

In 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.’

Psalms 16:8

I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Psalms 16:9

Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell securely.

Psalms 16:10

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

Psalms 16:11

You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

Matthew 27:53

After Jesus’ resurrection, when they had come out of the tombs, they entered the holy city and appeared to many people.

John 10:18

No 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 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

1 Corinthians 15:20

But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:21

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.

1 Corinthians 15:22

For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

1 Corinthians 15:23

But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.

Colossians 1:18

And 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.

Revelation 1:5

and 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,

Acts 26:18

to 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.’

Luke 2:32

a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”