Acts 18:28

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.”

— WEB

“For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.”

— KJV

“for he powerfully confuted the Jews, [and that] publicly, showing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.”

— ASV

Cross-references

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1 Corinthians 15:3-4 "For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,"
Acts 18:5 "But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ."
Acts 9:22 "But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ."
Acts 26:22-23 "Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the …"
Luke 24:44 "He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophet…"
Hebrews 7:1-10 "For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,"
John 5:39 "“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me."
Luke 24:27 "Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself."

Commentary

For he mightily convinced the Jews--The word is very strong: "stoutly bore them down in argument," "vigorously argued them down," and the tense in that he continued to do it, or that this was the characteristic of his ministry. showing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ--Rather, "that the Christ (or Messiah) was Jesus." This expression, when compared with Act 18:25, seems to imply a richer testimony than with his partial knowledge he was at first able to bear; and the power with which he bore down all opposition in argument is that which made him such an acquisition to the brethren. Thus his ministry would be as good as another visitation to the Achaian churches by the apostle himself (see Co1 3:6) and the more as, in so far as he was indebted for it to Priscilla and Aquila, it would have a decidedly Pauline cast. Next: Acts Chapter 19

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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