Daily Bible Nugget #155, Acts 18:28

The Nugget:

Acts 18:28 For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.

My Comment:

The Scriptures testify of Christ. Notice that the Scriptures testified of Christ before He came. There are many specific prophecies about the Messiah in the Old Testament. How would anyone know that a person who came and claimed the title of the Messiah of the Jews was truly the Messiah? Clearly, the true Messiah would have to match the many things predicted about Him. Jesus fulfilled all the predictions of the Old Testament that pertain to His coming to suffer. The predictions He did not fulfill pertain to His coming in glory. First the sufferings, then the glory is what the Scripture specified in prophecy. The Jews eagerly anticipated the glory of the Messiah, but rejected the predictions pertaining to His suffering. This blindness on the part of the Jews continues to this day. Apollos was a Jew born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, mighty in the Scriptures. He it is that “mightily convinced the Jews, and that publically, showing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.” I wish we all had access to his sermon outlines and Scripture texts! The next best thing, lacking those, are the extensive cross references and notes provided in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. The evidence is so strong it is irrefutable. Faced with the evidence, one either accepts the fact that Jesus is the promised Messiah, or one must discard the Old Testament as the Word of God. If Jesus is not the Messiah, Moses is a liar. No Jew can agree to that if they are faithful to their Scriptures. Since there are time prophecies involved, and other prophecies involving genealogy, and circumstances of place like the Temple at Jerusalem, now that that Temple was destroyed in 70 AD, and the genealogical records destroyed with it, it is impossible that anyone could appear now to fulfill those prophecies. If Jesus is not the Messiah, there never was and never will be a Messiah.

For those who desire to DIG DEEPER into this subject:

(1) Consult the cross references given in Nelson’s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible on page 1254 for Acts 18:28.

(2) Consult the cross references given in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge on page 1274 or in Logos 5 Bible software for Acts 18:28.

(3) Lacking access to those two resources, consult the cross references for this passage as I have developed them as given below:

Acts 18:28. mightily. ver. 24. Lk 23:10g. convinced. or, confuted. Literally, he kept arguing them down (Walker). ver. 5, 25. Ac 6:10. 9:22. +*17:3. 26:22, 23. Mt 11:3. Lk 23:10g. +*24:27, 44. 1 C +*15:3, 4. T 1:9. He ch. 7-10. Ju +*3. publickly. Ac +5:18g. shewing. Ac +8:35. +*10:43. 28:23. Jn +**5:39. 1 C +*15:3. the scriptures. ver. 24. Mt +21:42. was Christ. or, is the Christ. See on ver. +5. Ac *9:22. +*17:3.

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One Response to Daily Bible Nugget #155, Acts 18:28

  1. ken sagely says:

    acts 18.28 For he mightily convinced the jews, and that publicly,
    shewing by the scriptures that jesus was the christ.

    encouraging cross refs
    1. ac 18.5 when silas and timotheus where come
    from macedonia, paul was pressed in the spirit and
    testified to the jews that, jesus was christ.
    2. ac 18.25 this man was instructed in the way of Lord;
    and being fervent in spirit, he spake and taught diligently
    the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of john.
    3. ac 9.22 But saul increased the more in strength and
    confounded the Jews which dwelt at damascus proving that
    this is very Christ.
    4. ac 17.3 Beginning and alleging that christ must needs that
    christ must needs have suffered and risen again from the dead:
    and that this jesus whom i preach to yo is christ.
    5. ac 26.22 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.
    6. ac 26.23 That Christ should suffer and that he should be the
    first that should rise from dead, and should shew light unto the
    people, and to the gentiles.

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