28For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
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And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; …
But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: …
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-28)The sacred history leaves Paul upon his travels, and goes here to meet Apollos at Ephesus, and to give us some account of him, which was necessary to our understanding some passages in Paul’s epistles. I. Here is an account of his character, when he came to Ephesus. 1. He was a Jew, born at Alexandria in Egypt, but of Jewish parents; for there were abundance of Jews in that city, since the dispers…
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