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 behold, Jesus met them, saying, "Greetings!" And they came up [and] took hold of his feet and worshiped him.

She went out [and] announced [it] to those who were with him [while they] were mourning and weeping.

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

What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched, concerning the word of life--

Forty

{When I went up the mountain} to receive {the stone tablets}, the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh {made} with you, and remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights, I did not eat food and I did not drink water.

So he got up, ate, drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights up to Horeb, the mountain of God.

and [after he] had fasted forty days and forty nights, then he was hungry.

Speaking

proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching the [things] concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

And {in the day of those kings}, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will {never} be destroyed, and the kingdom will not be left for another nation, and it will bring an end to all these kingdoms, but it will stand {forever}.

and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near!"

For this [reason], I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to a people who produce its fruits.

Now [when he] was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with {things that can be observed},

And he said to them, "These [are] my words that I spoke to you [while I] was still with you, that everything that is written about me in the law of Moses and the 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 rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred [us] to the kingdom of the Son {he loves},

exhorting and consoling you and insisting that you live in a manner worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.