²⁶ Wasn’t it necessary for the Messiah to suffer^(A) these things and enter into his glory?”^(B)

⁹ For they did not yet understand the Scripture^(A) that he must rise^(B) from the dead.^(C)

¹⁸ In this way God fulfilled what he had predicted through all the prophets—that his Messiah would suffer.^(A)

²² But Saul grew stronger and kept confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah.

²⁸ For he vigorously refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating through the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah.^(A)