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.'Acts 26:23 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThat Christ should suffer - That the Christ, or Messiah, should suffer. This, though fully revealed in the prophets, the prejudices of the Jews would not permit them to receive: they expected their Messiah to be a glorious secular prince; and, to reconcile the fifty-third of Isaiah with their system, they formed the childish notion of two Messiahs - Messiah ben David, who should reign, conquer, and triumph; and Messiah ben Ephraim, who should suffer and be put to death. A distinction which has not the smallest foundation in the whole Bible.
As the apostle says he preached none other things than those which Moses and the prophets said should come, therefore he understood that both Moses and the prophets spoke of the resurrection of the dead, as well as of the passion and resurrection of Christ. If this be so, the favourite system of a learned bishop cannot be true; viz. that the doctrine of the immortality of the soul was unknown to the ancient Jews.
That he should be the first that should rise from the dead - That is, that he should be the first who should rise from the dead so as to die no more; and to give, in his own person, the proof of the resurrection of the human body, no more to return under the empire of death. In no other sense can Jesus Christ be said to be the first that rose again from the dead; for Elisha raised the son of the Shunammite. A dead man, put into the sepulchre of the Prophet Elisha, was restored to life as soon as he touched the prophet's bones. Christ himself had raised the widow's son at Nain; and he had also raised Lazarus, and several others. All these died again; but the human nature of our Lord was raised from the dead, and can die no more. Thus he was the first who rose again from the dead to return no more into the empire of death.
And should show light unto the people - Should give the true knowledge of the law and the prophets to the Jews; for these are meant by the term people, as in Acts 26:17. And to the Gentiles, who had no revelation, and who sat in the valley of the shadow of death: these also, through Christ, should be brought to the knowledge of the truth, and be made a glorious Church, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. That the Messiah should be the light both of the Jews and Gentiles, the prophets had clearly foretold: see Isaiah 60:1 : Arise and shine, or be illuminated, for thy Light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. And again, Isaiah 49:6 : I will give thee for a Light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the ends of the earth. With such sayings as these Agrippa was well acquainted, from his education as a Jew.
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Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head...
Psalm 22:1-69:36 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring...
Isaiah 53:1-12 Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed...
Daniel 9:24-26 Seventy weeks are determined on your people and on your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins...
Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications...
Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, said the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd...
Luke 18:31-33 Then he took to him the twelve, and said to them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem...
Luke 24:26,46 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory...
1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
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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, you 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...
Psalm 16:8-11 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved...
Isaiah 53:10-12 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed...
Matthew 27:53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared to many.
John 10:18 No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again...
John 11:25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
1 Corinthians 15:20-23 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept...
Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead...
Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth...
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Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God...
Luke 2:32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.
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