Acts 1:3

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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

Forty

Deuteronomy 9:9

1 Kings 19:8

Matthew 4:2

Speaking

Bible References

He shewed

Who appeared, during many days, unto them who had come up with him from Galilee unto Jerusalem; who, indeed, noware his witnesses unto the people.

And lo! Jesus, met them, saying - Joy to you! And, they, going forward, held his feet, and worshipped him.

And that he appeared unto Cephas, then, to the twelve,

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we for ourselves gazed upon, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of Life, -

Forty

When I went up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone - the tables of the covenant, which Yahweh had solemnised with you, then abode I in the mountain forty days and forty nights, food, did I not, eat, and water, did I not drink.

So he arose, and did eat and drink, - and journeyed, in the strength of that eating, forty days and forty nights, as far as the mountain of God - Horeb.

and, fasting forty days and forty nights, - afterwards, he hungered.

Speaking

proclaiming the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom of speech, without hindrance.

And, in the days of those kings, shall the God of the heavens, set up, a kingdom which, to the ages, shall not be destroyed, and, the kingdom, to another people, shall not be left, - it shall break in pieces and make an end of all these kingdoms, but, itself, shall stand to the ages.

saying, Repent ye, - for the kingdom of the heavens hath drawn near.

Wherefore I say unto you, The kingdom of God, will be taken away from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof:

And, being questioned by the Pharisees, When cometh the kingdom of God? he answered them and said - The kingdom of God cometh not with narrow watching;

And he said unto them - These, are my words, which I spake unto you yet being with you: That all the things that are written in the law of Moses and the Prophets and Psalms, concerning me, must needs be fulfilled.

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

Who hath rescued us out of the authority of the darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

To the end ye might be walking in a manner worthy of God, who is calling you unto his own kingdom and glory,