Acts 9:22

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Summary

But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.

Increased

2 Corinthians 12:9

Philippians 4:13

Confounded

Proving

Bible References

Increased

but he has answered me. "My grace is sufficient for you; it is in weakness that my power is perfected."

I am strong for everything in Him who gives me strength.

Confounded

But certain men from the so-called "Synagogue of the Freedmen" and certain Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, Cilicians, and men from Roman Asia, started to dispute with Stephen,

When he wished to cross over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples in Corinth to receive him. On his arrival he mightily helped those who through grace had believed,

"for I will give you utterance and a wisdom which none of your adversaries will be able to answer or withstand.

No, God has chosen the world's folly to confound its philosophy; and the world's weakness to confound its strength.

Proving

explaining and quoting passages to prove that the Messiah had to suffer and to rise again from the dead and that "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming unto you is the Messiah."

And when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in his message, earnestly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.

So they arranged a day with him and came to him in his lodgings in great numbers. He expounded the matter to them; testifying to the Kingdom of God, and persuading them about Jesus, from morning till evening, both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.

Then he said to them, "These are my words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, how all things must be fulfilled which are written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms concerning me."