Acts 25:19 Cross References

Acts 25:19

19: It was something about their religion and about someone called Jesus who died, but whom Paul insists is alive.

I soon discovered it was something regarding their religious law--certainly nothing worthy of imprisonment or death.

But since it is merely a question of words and names and your Jewish laws, you take care of it. I refuse to judge such matters."

On Paul's arrival in court, the Jewish leaders from Jerusalem gathered around and made many serious accusations they couldn't prove.

I am the living one who died. Look, I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.

But God protected me so that I am still alive today to tell these facts to everyone, from the least to the greatest. I teach nothing except what the prophets and Moses said would happen--
that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to rise from the dead as a light to Jews and Gentiles alike."

And if Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless.
And we apostles would all be lying about God, for we have said that God raised Christ from the grave, but that can't be true if there is no resurrection of the dead.
If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised.
And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless, and you are still under condemnation for your sins.
In that case, all who have died believing in Christ have perished!

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.

from the time he was baptized by John until the day he was taken from us into heaven. Whoever is chosen will join us as a witness of Jesus' resurrection."

"This prophecy was speaking of Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, and we all are witnesses of this.

So Paul, standing before the Council, addressed them as follows: "Men of Athens, I notice that you are very religious,
for as I was walking along I saw your many altars. And one of them had this inscription on it--'To an Unknown God.' You have been worshiping him without knowing who he is, and now I wish to tell you about him.

When they arrived at the port of Ephesus, Paul left the others behind. But while he was there, he went to the synagogue to debate with the Jews.

For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead."

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