Acts 18:28 Cross References - MNT

²⁸ for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public argument, proving to them from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah.

²⁷ And beginning with Moses and the Prophets, he interpreted all the passages concerning himself.

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "These are my words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, how all things must be fulfilled which are written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms concerning me."

³⁹ "You are searching the Scriptures because you suppose that in tem you have eternal life; and though these are they that bear witness concerning me,

²² But Saul gained more and more influence, and kept putting the Jews who lived in Damascus to confusion by his proof that Jesus was the Christ.

³ explaining and quoting passages to prove that the Messiah had to suffer and to rise again from the dead and that "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming unto you is the Messiah."

⁵ And when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in his message, earnestly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.

²⁵ He had been instructed in the ways of the Lord, and being full of zeal, he used to speak and to teach accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

²² "But having obtained the help that comes from God, I stand even to this day witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said should come; ²³ "how that the Christ must suffer, and how he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should bring a message of light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."

³ For the very first thing I taught you was that I had myself been taught, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture, ⁴ that he was buried, and that he was raised the third day, according to the Scriptures,

¹ It was this Melchizedek, King of Salem and Priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him; ² and it was to him that Abraham apportioned a tithe of all the spoil. He was first, as his name signifies, King of righteousness, and then King of Salem, that is, King of Peace; ³ without father or mother, without lineage, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest in perpetuity. ⁴ But observe how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the Patriarch, gave a tenth part of the spoils. ⁵ Now those of the sons of Levi who are appointed to the priesthood, are authorized by the Law to take tithes of the people, that is, of their brothers, and that too, although these are descended from Abraham. ⁶ But this man who had no Levitical genealogy actually took tithes of Abraham, and blessed him to whom the promises belong. ⁷ Now it is beyond all controversy that the inferior is always blessed by the superior. ⁸ Again it is mortal men who receive tithes in the one case; while in the other it is he of whom it is attested, "He lives." ⁹ And even Levi, who is the receiver of tithes, so to speak, paid tithes through Abraham; ¹⁰ for Levi was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met Abraham.