keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

Jesus

The family tree of Jesus Christ, a descendant of David, a descendant of Abraham.

So, as he was a prophet and knew that God with an oath had promised to put one of his descendants on his throne,

It is from this man's descendants that God, as He promised, has brought to Israel a Saviour in the person of Jesus,

about His Son, who on the physical side became a descendant of David, and on the holy, spiritual side

But one of the elders said to me, "Stop weeping! See! The Lion who sprang from the tribe of Judah, who belongs to the line of David, has conquered, so that He can open the book and break its seven seals."

Raised

and said to them, "The Scriptures said that the Christ should suffer as He has suffered, should rise from the dead on the third day,

but God raised Him up by loosing Him from the pangs of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held by the power of death.

Now let me remind you, brothers, of the essence of the good news which I proclaimed to you, which you accepted, on which you now are standing,

According

on the day when God through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the good news I preach, will judge the secrets people have kept.

To Him who can make you strong in accordance with the good news I bring and in accordance with the message preached about Jesus Christ, in accordance with the uncovering of the secret which for ages past had not been told,

and to this end He called you by our preaching of the good news, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

as measured by the glorious good news of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

and for which purpose I was appointed a preacher and an apostle -- I am telling the truth, I am not lying, -- a teacher of the heathen in the realm of faith and truth.