Acts 17:3 Cross References
Acts 17:3
3: He was explaining and proving the prophecies about the sufferings of the Messiah and his rising from the dead. He said, "This Jesus I'm telling you about is the Messiah."
Acts 18:28
- He refuted all the Jews with powerful arguments in public debate. Using the Scriptures, he explained to them, "The Messiah you are looking for is Jesus."
Acts 9:22
- Saul's preaching became more and more powerful, and the Jews in Damascus couldn't refute his proofs that Jesus was indeed the Messiah.
Acts 3:18
- But God was fulfilling what all the prophets had declared about the Messiah beforehand--that he must suffer all these things.
Luke 24:46
- And he said, "Yes, it was written long ago that the Messiah must suffer and die and rise again from the dead on the third day.
Luke 24:32
- They said to each other, "Didn't our hearts feel strangely warm as he talked with us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?"
Acts 3:22
- Moses said, 'The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet like me from among your own people. Listen carefully to everything he tells you.'
- Then Moses said, 'Anyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be cut off from God's people and utterly destroyed.'
- "Starting with Samuel, every prophet spoke about what is happening today.
- You are the children of those prophets, and you are included in the covenant God promised to your ancestors. For God said to Abraham, 'Through your descendants all the families on earth will be blessed.'
- When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you people of Israel, to bless you by turning each of you back from your sinful ways."
Luke 24:26
- Wasn't it clearly predicted by the prophets that the Messiah would have to suffer all these things before entering his time of glory?"
- Then Jesus quoted passages from the writings of Moses and all the prophets, explaining what all the Scriptures said about himself.
Acts 1:4
- In one of these meetings as he was eating a meal with them, he told them, "Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you what he promised. Remember, I have told you about this before.
Acts 2:16
- No, what you see this morning was predicted centuries ago by the prophet Joel:
- 'In the last days, God said, I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
- In those days I will pour out my Spirit upon all my servants, men and women alike, and they will prophesy.
- And I will cause wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below--blood and fire and clouds of smoke.
- The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon will turn bloodred, before that great and glorious day of the Lord arrives.
Galatians 3:1
- Oh, foolish Galatians! What magician has cast an evil spell on you? For you used to see the meaning of Jesus Christ's death as clearly as though I had shown you a signboard with a picture of Christ dying on the cross.
Acts 13:26
- "Brothers--you sons of Abraham, and also all of you devout Gentiles who fear the God of Israel--this salvation is for us!
- The people in Jerusalem and their leaders fulfilled prophecy by condemning Jesus to death. They didn't recognize him or realize that he is the one the prophets had written about, though they hear the prophets' words read every Sabbath.
- They found no just cause to execute him, but they asked Pilate to have him killed anyway.
- "When they had fulfilled all the prophecies concerning his death, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.
- But God raised him from the dead!
1 Corinthians 15:3
- I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me--that Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said.
- He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, as the Scriptures said.
John 20:9
- for until then they hadn't realized that the Scriptures said he would rise from the dead.
Luke 24:44
- Then he said, "When I was with you before, I told you that everything written about me by Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms must all come true."
1 Thessalonians 1:5
- For when we brought you the Good News, it was not only with words but also with power, for the Holy Spirit gave you full assurance that what we said was true. And you know that the way we lived among you was further proof of the truth of our message.
- So you received the message with joy from the Holy Spirit in spite of the severe suffering it brought you. In this way, you imitated both us and the Lord.