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 for many days of those who did come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

and as they were going to tell to his disciples, then lo, Jesus met them, saying, 'Hail!' and they having come near, laid hold of his feet, and did bow to him.

she having gone, told those who had been with him, mourning and weeping;

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

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life --

Forty

'In my going up into the mount to receive the tables of stone (tables of the covenant which Jehovah hath made with you), and I abide in the mount forty days and forty nights; bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk;

and he riseth, and eateth, and drinketh, and goeth in the power of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God -- Horeb.

and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger.

Speaking

preaching the reign of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness -- unforbidden.

And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed -- to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age.

and saying, 'Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'

'Because of this I say to you, that the reign of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth its fruit;

And having been questioned by the Pharisees, when the reign of God doth come, he answered them, and said, 'The reign of God doth not come with observation;

and he said to them, 'These are the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

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

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate us into the reign of the Son of His love,

for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.