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Acts 17:3

Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.

KJV

διανοίγων καὶ παρατιθέμενος ὅτι τὸν Χριστὸν ἔδει παθεῖν καὶ ἀναστῆναι ἐκ νεκρῶν, καὶ ὅτι οὗτός ἐστιν Χριστός, Ἰησοῦς, ὃν ἐγὼ καταγγέλλω ὑμῖν.

Greek NT

adaperiens et insinuans quia Christum oportuit pati, et resurgere a mortuis : et quia hic est Jesus Christus, quem ego annuntio vobis.

Vulgate

opening and alleging that it behooved the Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom, said he, I proclaim unto you, is the Christ.

ASV

Declaring and insinuating that the Christ was to suffer and to rise again from the dead; and that this is Jesus Christ, whom I preach to you.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
δεῖ
dei
verb · 103×
διανοίγω
dianoigo
verb · 8×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καταγγέλλω
kataggello
verb · 18×
νεκρός
nekros
adjective · 128×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πάσχω
pascho
verb · 41×
παρατίθημι
paratithemi
verb · 19×
ἀνίστημι
anistemi
verb · 107×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: ὁ χριστός ὁ , | WH/NIV: ὁ χριστός, ὁ | Treg: χριστός | RP: ὁ χριστός
  • ὁ χριστός ὁ ,SBLGNT
  • ὁ χριστός, ὁWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • χριστόςTregelles
  • ὁ χριστόςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 15:3 — For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
  • 1Sam 12:7 — Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
  • 1Thess 1:5 — For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
  • Acts 3:18 — But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
  • Acts 5:42 — And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 9:22 — But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
  • Acts 18:5 — And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
  • Acts 18:28 — For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
  • Acts 18:28 — For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
  • Col 1:28 — Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
  • Gal 3:1 — O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
  • Jude 1:3 — Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once deli
  • Luke 2:11 — For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
  • Luke 9:20 — He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.
  • Luke 24:26 — Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
  • Luke 24:32 — And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
  • Luke 24:46 — And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
  • Luke 24:46 — And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
  • Mark 13:7 — And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.