Acts 26:23
if the Christ should suffer, and by being the first to rise from the dead was to proclaim the light to the Jewish people and to the heathen."
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the First-born of the dead, and the Sovereign of the kings of the earth. To Him who ever loves us and once for all released us from our sins by His blood,
Luke 2:32
a light of revelation to the heathen, and a glory to your people Israel."
Colossians 1:18
Yes, He is the Head of the church as His body. For He is the beginning, the first-born among the dead, so that He alone should stand first in everything.
Luke 24:26
Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and thus to enter into His glory?"
John 10:18
No one has taken it from me, but I am giving it as a free gift. I have the right to give it and I have the right to take it back. I have gotten this order from my Father."
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, so as to have their sins forgiven and have a possession among those that are consecrated by faith in me.'
Matthew 27:53
and left their tombs, and after His resurrection went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
Luke 18:31-33
Now He took the Twelve aside and said to them, "Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.
Luke 24:46
and said to them, "The Scriptures said that the Christ should suffer as He has suffered, should rise from the dead on the third day,
John 11:25
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life myself. Whoever continues to believe in me will live right on even though he dies,
Acts 2:23-32
this very Jesus, I say, after He was betrayed, in accordance with the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you had wicked men kill by nailing Him to a cross;
Acts 3:18
But in this way God fulfilled what He by the lips of all the prophets foretold, that the Christ should suffer.
Acts 13:34
Now as a proof that He has raised Him from the dead, no more to return to decay, He has spoken this, 'I will fulfill to you the holy promises made to David.'
Acts 26:8
Why is it considered incredible by all of you that God should raise the dead?
1 Corinthians 15:3
For I passed on to you, among the primary principles of the good news, what I had received, that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the Scriptures,
1 Corinthians 15:20-23
But in reality Christ has been raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.
Hebrews 2:10
For it was appropriate for Him, who is the Final Goal and the First Cause of the universe, in bringing many children to glory, to make the Leader in their salvation perfect through the process of sufferings.