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 for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.

But Jesus met them, saying, "Greetings!" They came to him, held on to his feet and worshiped him.

She went out and told those who were with him, while they were mourning and weeping.

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

This is what we proclaim to you: 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 the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.

Speaking

proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with complete boldness and without restriction.

In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever.

"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near."

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

Now at one point the Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God was coming, so he answered, "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed,

Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

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

He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,

exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.