¹⁸ In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah^[a] would suffer.

³ explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Messiah^[a] to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This is the Messiah,^[b] Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you.”

²³ that the Messiah^[a] must suffer, and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”