Acts 1:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.

Men

Acts 28:17

This

Which the

Spake

John 18:2

General references

Matthew 26:54

1 Timothy 5:24

Bible References

Men

Men, brethren, let me freely speak to you concerning the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us to this day.

And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.

And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose and said to them, Men, brethren, ye know that a good while ago, God made choice among us, that the Gentiles, by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now to you.

And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men, brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

And it came to pass, that after three days, Paul called together the chief of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them, Men, brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

This

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

That the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.

Which the

Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, that from the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

Who, by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after Paul had spoken one word, Well spoke the Holy Spirit by Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,

The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was on my tongue.

For David himself said by the Holy Spirit, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thy enemies thy footstool.

Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye will hear his voice,

Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

Spake

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that magnified himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

And while he was yet speaking, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staffs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

I speak not of you all; I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me, hath lifted up his heel against me.

And Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus often resorted thither with his disciples.

General references

But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment: and some men they follow after.