Acts 26:23

The resurrection The cross and atonement Prophecy

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:

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.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”
KJV: That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
WEB: how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”
ASV: how that the Christ must suffer, [and] how that he first by the resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles.
DARBY: [namely,] whether Christ should suffer; whether he first, through resurrection of [the] dead, should announce light both to the people and to the nations.
BLB: that the Christ would suffer [and], as first through resurrection from the dead, He is about to proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”

ÅB: at Messias skulle lide, og at han som den første av de dødes oppstandelse skulle forkynne lys for folket og for hedningene.
OTB: at Messias skulle lide og, som den første til å stå opp fra de døde, skulle forkynne lys både for sitt eget folk og for hedningene.»
B1930: at Messias skulde lide, og at han som den første av de dødes opstandelse skulde forkynne lys for folket og for hedningene.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 53:1–12
Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
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Luke 24:26
Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
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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.
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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,
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Hebrews 2:10
In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.
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Daniel 9:24–26
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.
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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.
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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.”
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