Acts 26:21-23
21 For these reasons the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me. 22 Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come— 23 that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.”
Paul was attacked for the hope found in the prophets and writings of Moses (OT Torah, Pentateuch). He bore witness to those truths of God saying the Messiah, the Christian, the one of God sent into the world as deliverer was Jesus. These same scriptures spoke of His sacrificial death and subsequent resurrection. So light for the world held in the darkness of sin and the devil’s reign was shone to us in the face of Jesus Christ, revealing the glory of God in this most good word of life, the gospel. For this Paul risked all, for giving up His life was a small thing to bring resurrected life that lasts forever to others.
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