3Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
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For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Paul’s two epistles to the Thessalonians, the first two he wrote by inspiration, give such a shining character of that church, that we cannot but be glad here in the history to meet with an account of the first founding of the church there. I. Here is Paul’s coming to Thessalonica, which was the chief city of this country, called at this day Salonech , in the Turkish dominions. Observe, 1. Paul we…
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