"David himself then calls him Lord; so how can he be his son?" Now the great mass of the people were wont to listen to him with delight;

and began to accuse him. "We have found this fellow perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and proclaiming that he is the Messiah and King."

In the morning he found his brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (a word which means Christ, the Anointed One).

"I know," said the woman, "that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ; when he has come he will tell us everything."

When the great mass of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came not alone because of Jesus, but to see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

"and that he may send Jesus, your appointed Messiah,

but not for a single day did they desist from teaching and preaching in the Temple, and in private houses, the Gospel of Jesus, the Messiah.

But the mass of the city's people was divided; part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

When they got as far as Mysia, they attempted to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not permit it;

and so they passed by Mysia and went on down to Troas.

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.

for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public argument, proving to them from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah.

for the whole mass of the people were following him, shouting, "Away with him!"

Now if the first-fruits of the dough Abraham and the Patriarchs are holy, so also is the whole mass their descendants. And if the root of a tree Abraham is holy, so also are the branches his descendants.

but we come preaching a crucified Messiah??o Jews a stumbling-block, to Greeks foolishness,