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

And he was seen many days of them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshiped him.

And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;

Forty

When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry.

Speaking

Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.

And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

And saying, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Therefore I say unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

And when he was demanded by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with outward observation:

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

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.