Acts 1:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

He shewed

1 John 1:1

Forty

Deuteronomy 9:9

1 Kings 19:8

Matthew 4:2

Speaking

Bible References

He shewed

who appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.

And as they went to bring his disciples word, behold also, Jesus met them, saying, Hail! And they coming up took him by the feet, and did him homage.

She went and brought word to those that had been with him, who were grieving and weeping.

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes; that which we contemplated, and our hands handled, concerning the word of life;

Forty

when I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, and I abode in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water, --

And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.

Speaking

preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom unhinderedly.

And in the days of these kings shall the God of the heavens set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the sovereignty thereof shall not be left to another people: it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, but itself shall stand for ever.

and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn nigh.

Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

And having been asked by the Pharisees, When is the kingdom of God coming? he answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation;

And he said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all that is written concerning me in the law of Moses and prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.