Acts 25:19 Cross References - Lamsa

¹⁹ But they had certain grievances against him relative to their own worship and to one named Jesus, now dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

²² Beginning from the baptism of John until the day he ascended from among us, become a partner with us as a witness of his resurrection.

³² This very Jesus, God has raised up, and we are all his witnesses.

²² When Paul stood in the court at Ar-eopÆa- gus, he said, Men of Athens, I see that above all things you are extravagant in the worship of idols. ²³ For as I walked about, and viewed the house of your idols, I found an altar with this inscription, THIS IS THE ALTAR OF THE UNKNOWN GOD, whom therefore, while you know him not but yet worship, is the very one I am preaching to you.

³¹ For he has appointed a day in which he will judge all the earth with righteousness by the man whom he has chosen; he who has turned every man towards his faith; for that, he has raised him from the dead.

¹⁵ But if they are a mere question of words and names and concerning your law, you can settle it better among yourselves; for I do not wish to be a judge of such matters.

¹⁹ And they came to EphÆe-sus, and Paul entered into the synagogue and spoke to the Jews.

²⁹ And I found that only concerning questions of their law was he accused, and that he had done nothing worthy of bonds or of death.

⁷ And when he was come, the Jews who had come from Jerusalem surrounded him, and brought against him many serious charges which they could not prove.

²² But God has helped me to this very day, and behold I stand and testify to the humble and to the great, saying nothing contrary to Moses and the prophets, but the very things which they said were to take place; ²³ That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead, and that he should preach light to the people and to the Gentiles.

³ For I delivered to you first of all that which I had also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; ⁴ And that he was buried, and that he rose again on the third day according to the scriptures:

¹⁴ And if Christ is not risen, then is our preaching in vain, and your faith is also in vain; ¹⁵ And we are also found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ when he had not raised him. ¹⁶ For if the dead rise not, then neither did Christ rise: ¹⁷ And if Christ did not rise, your belief is in vain; and you are yet in your sins. ¹⁸ And also, then, those who have died in Christ have perished. ¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, then we are of all men most miserable. ²⁰ But now we know Christ is risen from the dead and become the first-fruits of those who have died.

¹⁸ I am he who lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore. Amen; and have the keys of death and of hell.