but thus it is that God has accomplished what he had foretold by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer.

full of joy, that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Jesus.

for I will make him see how much he must suffer for my name.

it is of his posterity that God, pursuant to his promise, has rais'd up Jesus to be the saviour of Israel.

wherefore in another place he says, "thou shalt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption."

explaining them, and setting it to view, that the Messiah was to suffer and rise again from the dead: and that Jesus, whom he denounc'd to them, was that very Messiah.

then Festus said, "King Agrippa, and you that are here present, you see the man, against whom a numerous body of the Jews have been practising with me both at Jerusalem, and in this city, urging with vehemence, that he should not be suffer'd to live.

but by the divine favour I am still preserv'd alive, testifying to the small and to the great nothing but what Moses and the prophets have predicted should happen: "that Christ should suffer: