Acts 26:23
Good News Translation
that the Messiah must suffer and be the first one to rise from death, to announce the light of salvation to the Jews and to the Gentiles."

New Revised Standard Version
that the Messiah 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.”

Contemporary English Version
I told them how the Messiah would suffer and be the first to be raised from death, so he could bring light to his own people and to the Gentiles.

New American Bible
that the Messiah must suffer and that, as the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
That Christ should suffer and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead and should shew light to the people and to the Gentiles.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That Christ should suffer and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead and should shew light to the people and to the Gentiles.

Christ.

Genesis 3:15 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

Psalm 22:1-69:36 Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David. [2] O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins. . . .

Isaiah 53:1-12 Who a hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? . . .

Daniel 9:24-26 Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the Saint of saints may be anointed. . . .

Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as the manner is to grieve for the death of the firstborn.

Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that cleaveth to me, saith the Lord of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand to the little ones.

Luke 18:31-33 Then Jesus took unto him the twelve and said to them: Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and all things shall be accomplished which were written by the prophets concerning the Son of man. . . .

Luke 24:26,46 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and so, to enter into his glory? . . .

1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures:

the first.

Acts 26:8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise the dead?

Acts 2:23-32 This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain. . . .

Acts 13:34 And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return now any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy things of David, faithful.

Psalm 16:8-11 I set the Lord always in my sight: for he is at my right hand, that I be not moved. . . .

Isaiah 53:10-12 And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall lay down his life for sin, he shall see a longlived seed, and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand. . . .

Matthew 27:53 And coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into the holy city and appeared to many.

John 10:18 No man taketh it away from me: but I lay it down of myself. And I have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

John 11:25 Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:

1 Corinthians 15:20-23 But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep: . . .

Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the primacy:

Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth, who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood

and should.

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

Luke 2:32 A light to the revelation of the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel.

Context
Paul's Testimony to Agrippa
22But being aided by the help of God, I stand unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other thing than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come to pass: 23That Christ should suffer and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead and should shew light to the people and to the Gentiles. 24As he spoke these things and made his answer, Festus said with a loud voice: Paul, thou art beside thyself: much learning doth make thee mad.…
Cross References
Isaiah 42:6
I the Lord have called thee in justice, and taken thee by the hand, and preserved thee. And I have given thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles:

Isaiah 49:6
And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth.

Matthew 26:24
The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him. But woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for him, if that man had not been born.

Luke 2:32
A light to the revelation of the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel.

Acts 3:18
But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

Acts 3:24
And all the prophets, from Samuel and afterwards, who have spoken, have told of these days.

1 Corinthians 15:20
But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep:

1 Corinthians 15:23
But every one in his own order: the firstfruits, Christ: then they that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming.

2 Corinthians 4:4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

Colossians 1:18
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the primacy:

Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth, who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood

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