Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles.” New Living Translation that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, and in this way announce God’s light to Jews and Gentiles alike.” English Standard Version that the Christ 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.” Berean Standard Bible that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.” Berean Literal Bible that Christ would suffer. As first through resurrection from the dead, He is about to preach light both to our people and to the Gentiles." King James Bible 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. New King James Version that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.” New American Standard Bible as to whether the Christ was to suffer, and whether, as first from the resurrection of the dead, He would proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.” NASB 1995 that the Christ was to suffer, and that by reason of His resurrection from the dead He would be the first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.” NASB 1977 that the Christ was to suffer, and that by reason of His resurrection from the dead He should be the first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.” Legacy Standard Bible that the Christ was to suffer, and that as first of the resurrection from the dead, He was going to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.” Amplified Bible that the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) was to suffer, and that He by being the first to rise from the dead [with an incorruptible body] would proclaim light (salvation) both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.” Christian Standard Bible that the Messiah must suffer, and that, as the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.” Holman Christian Standard Bible that the Messiah must suffer, and that as the first to rise from the dead, He would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.” American Standard Version 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English “That The Messiah would suffer and that he would be The Origin of the Resurrection from among the dead and would preach light to the nation 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. 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. English Revised Version 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation They said that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to come back to life and would spread light to Jewish and non-Jewish people." 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." International Standard Version that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to rise from the dead and would bring light both to our people and to the gentiles." Literal Standard Version that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a resurrection from the dead, He is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.” Majority Standard Bible that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our 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.” NET Bible that the Christ was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people 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.” New Heart English Bible how the Christ would suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to non-Jewish people." Webster's Bible Translation That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light to the people, and to the Gentiles. Weymouth New Testament since the Christ was to be a suffering Christ, and by coming back from the dead was then to be the first to proclaim a message of light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles." World English Bible 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.” Young's Literal Translation that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.' Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Paul's Testimony to Agrippa…22But 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: 23that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.” 24At this stage of Paul’s defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You are insane, Paul! Your great learning is driving you to madness!”… Cross References Isaiah 42:6 "I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations, Isaiah 49:6 He says: "It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth." Matthew 26:24 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born." Luke 2:32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel." Acts 3:18 But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer. Acts 3:24 Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days. 1 Corinthians 15:20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. Treasury of Scripture That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light to the people, and to the Gentiles. Christ. Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Psalm 22:1-69:36 To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? … Isaiah 53:1-12 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? … the first. Acts 26:8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? Acts 2:23-32 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: … Acts 13:34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. and should. Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. Luke 2:32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. Jump to Previous Announce Christ Dead First Gentiles Gentiles Jewish Light Message Namely Pain Proclaim Reason Resurrection Rise Shew Show Suffer Suffering WhetherJump to Next Announce Christ Dead First Gentiles Gentiles Jewish Light Message Namely Pain Proclaim Reason Resurrection Rise Shew Show Suffer Suffering WhetherActs 26 1. Paul, in the presence of Agrippa, declares his life from his childhood;12. and how miraculously he was converted, and called to his apostleship. 24. Festus charges him with being insane, whereunto he answers modestly. 28. Agrippa is almost persuaded to be a Christian. 31. The whole company pronounces him innocent. (23) That Christ should suffer.--Literally, that the Christ was passible--i.e., capable of suffering. The great body of the Jews had fixed their thoughts only on the prophetic visions of the glories of the Messiah's kingdom. Even the disciples of Jesus were slow to receive any other thought than that of conquest and triumph. Peter's "Be it far from thee, Lord" (Matthew 16:22) expressed the horror with which the thought of a suffering Christ at first struck him. It was not till they were led, after the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, into our Lord's own school of prophetic interpretation (Luke 24:25-26; Luke 24:44), and taught to recognise the under-current of types and prophecies that pointed to a righteous Sufferer, as well as to a righteous King, that they were able to receive the truth. So it was that a "Christ crucified" was still "to the Jews a stumbling-block" (1Corinthians 1:23). The speech at Antioch in Pisidia (Acts 13:27-35) may be noted as showing the stress which St. Paul laid on this point. The Greek has "if" in both clauses where the English has "that;" but our idiom scarcely admits of its being so translated. That he should be the first that should rise from the dead.--More literally, that He first by His resurrection from the dead (strictly, out of His resurrection) should show light. It was through the Resurrection only that the hopes of Simeon were fulfilled (Luke 2:32), and that light shone in on those who had been sitting as in the shadow of death. The "people" are, as almost always when the word is so used, God's people Israel, as distinguished from the heathen. . . . Verse 23. - How that the Christ must for that Christ should, A.V.; how that he first by the resurrection of the dead should proclaim for that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show, A.V.; both to for unto, A.V. and T.R. How that (εἰ); see ver. 8, note. Must suffer; ταθητός only here and in profane Greek writers. The exact meaning of παθητός is "liable to suffering," just as θνητός (from θνήσκω) means "liable to death," i.e. mortal. But just as θνητός in use comes to mean "one who must die," so παθητός means "one who must suffer;" and so we read in Luke 24:26, Οὐχὶ ἔδει παθεῖν τὸν Ξριστὸν καὶ εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὑτοῦ; "Ought not Christ to have suffered," etc.? And so again in Luke 24:46 (T.R.), Ἔδει παθεῖν τὸν Ξριστὸν καὶ ἀναστῆναι ἐκ νεκρῶν, "It behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead," where the turn of thought is exactly the same as here. The Vulgate renders it by passibilis. The Fathers (Ignatius, Polycarp, Justin Martyr) contrast the state of Christ in glory with his state in the flesh by the words ἀπαθής and παθητός, "impassible" and "passible." That he first by the resurrection of the dead should proclaim, etc. Most commentators, from Chrysostom downwards, connect the first with the resurrection. "First from the resurrection," equal to πρωτότοκος ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν (Colossians 1:18). As Meyer truly says, "The chief stress of this sentence lies on πρῶτος ἐξ ἀναστάσεως." The A.V. gives the sense by a periphrasis; only it must be well understood that it was especially by being the first to rise, and so to bring life and immortality to light, that Christ showed light to the people. The words may, of course, be construed as the R.V. does, but such a rendering is not in accordance with the spirit of the passage or the analogy of other passages. Christ was the first rise, and he will be followed by them that are his. But it is not true to say that he was the first to give light to Jews and Gentiles, and will be followed by others doing the same. (For the sentiment, setup. Luke 2:32.) Note on the whole the enormous stress laid by St. Paul on the fulfillment of prophecy as a proof of the truth of the gospel, following therein our Lord himself (Luke 24:25, 27, 44, 45).Parallel Commentaries ... Greek thatεἰ (ei) Conjunction Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc. Christ Χριστός (Christos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus. would suffer, παθητὸς (pathētos) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3805: Destined to suffer. From the same as pathema; liable to experience pain. [and as the] εἰ (ei) Conjunction Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc. first πρῶτος (prōtos) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 4413: First, before, principal, most important. Contracted superlative of pro; foremost. to rise ἀναστάσεως (anastaseōs) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 386: A rising again, resurrection. From anistemi; a standing up again, i.e. a resurrection from death (its author), or a recovery. from ἐξ (ex) Preposition Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out. [the] dead, νεκρῶν (nekrōn) Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural Strong's 3498: (a) adj: dead, lifeless, subject to death, mortal, (b) noun: a dead body, a corpse. From an apparently primary nekus; dead. He would μέλλει (mellei) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 3195: A strengthened form of melo; to intend, i.e. Be about to be, do, or suffer something. proclaim καταγγέλλειν (katangellein) Verb - Present Infinitive Active Strong's 2605: To declare openly, proclaim, preach, laud, celebrate. From kata and the base of aggelos; to proclaim, promulgate. light φῶς (phōs) Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular Strong's 5457: Light, a source of light, radiance. From an obsolete phao; luminousness. to τῷ (tō) Article - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. our people λαῷ (laō) Noun - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 2992: Apparently a primary word; a people. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. to the τοῖς (tois) Article - Dative Neuter Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. Gentiles.” ἔθνεσιν (ethnesin) Noun - Dative Neuter Plural Strong's 1484: Probably from etho; a race, i.e. A tribe; specially, a foreign one. Links Acts 26:23 NIVActs 26:23 NLT Acts 26:23 ESV Acts 26:23 NASB Acts 26:23 KJV Acts 26:23 BibleApps.com Acts 26:23 Biblia Paralela Acts 26:23 Chinese Bible Acts 26:23 French Bible Acts 26:23 Catholic Bible NT Apostles: Acts 26:23 How the Christ must suffer and how (Acts of the Apostles Ac) |
    |